Mother Courage and Her Children
ننه دلاور و فرزندانش
Author: Bertolt Brecht and Erich Engel / Bertolt Brecht · 1949
About this work
Brecht's epic theatre uses distancing devices such as placards announcing each scene's title and place, half-height curtains and demonstrative, gestural acting, to keep spectators critically alert rather than absorbed. The 1949 Mother Courage at Berlin's Deutsches Theater, with Helene Weigel in the title role, was Brecht's first major success directing his own work, and its cast formed the core of the Berliner Ensemble. Brecht documented the staging in the Courage Model Book, and the production toured Europe, including Paris, for more than a decade.
تئاتر حماسی برشت با شیوه‌هایی چون فاصله‌گذاری، تابلوه‌ای اعلام عنوان و مکان هر صحنه، پرده‌های نیمه‌قد و بازی نمایشی‌ـ‌اشاره‌ای می‌کوشد تماشاگر را به داوری انتقادی وادارد نه همذات‌پنداری. اجرای ۱۹۴۹ «ننه دلاور» در دویچس تئاتر برلین، با بازی هلنه وایگل در نقش اصلی، نخستین موفقیت بزرگ برشت در کارگردانی اثر خود بود و بازیگرانش هستهٔ برلینر انسامبل را ساختند. برشت این اجرا را در «مدل‌بوک» با عکس و یادداشت تمرین ثبت کرد و همین اجرا در سال‌های بعد به پاریس و دیگر شهره‌ای اروپا سفر کرد.
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عکس · Roger Pic's photographs of the Engel/Brecht staging on tour at Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt, Paris, 1957 (BnF, public domain), Wikimedia Commons ▶ Listen at the source ↗
نقد · Gideon Lester · American Repertory Theater ▶ Listen at the source ↗
نقد · Gitta Honegger · TDR: The Drama Review ▶ Listen at the source ↗
اجرا · Ali Yaghoubi · Morteza Yaghoubpour, Naser Ezzati, Asal Rajabi (translated by Mousa Masoum) · Mehrab Hall, Ostad Jafar Vali Hall, Tehran · 2024–25 · Instagram reel by cast member Naser Ezzati, July 2024: video of Mother Courage and Her Children designed and directed by Ali Yaghoubi, tagging the whole company ▶ Listen at the source ↗
اجرا · Bertolt Brecht with Erich Engel · Helene Weigel, Ernst Busch, Angelika Hurwicz · filmed theatre of the Berliner Ensemble production, screened at Hilaj Theater (Namayesh Workshop), Tehran · 2026–27 · DEFA Film Library page at the University of Massachusetts on the film Mother Courage and Her Children (Berliner Ensemble, 1961), with photo, credits and list of press reviews ▶ Listen at the source ↗
اجرا · Joan Littlewood · Joan Littlewood (Mother Courage) · Theatre Workshop, first British production · 1955 · report (Slate) ▶ Listen at the source ↗
اجرا · Karlsruhe theatre production · Karlsruhe, Germany · 1955–1956 · photo (Baden-Württemberg State Archive, Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe) ▶ Listen at the source ↗
اجرا · Manfred Wekwerth · Gisela May · Berliner Ensemble, Berlin (Berliner Festtage) · 1978 · rehearsal photo (Bundesarchiv) ▶ Listen at the source ↗
اجرا · Internationalist Theatre · Margaret Robertson, Milos Kirek · London · 1982 · photos (now in the Brecht Archive, Akademie der Künste, Berlin) ▶ Listen at the source ↗
اجرا · Deborah Warner · Fiona Shaw (translated by Tony Kushner) · National Theatre (Olivier), London · 2009 · report (review by Michael Billington in The Guardian) ▶ Listen at the source ↗
اجرا · Wesley Enoch · Ursula Yovich · Queensland Theatre Company, Playhouse QPAC, Brisbane · 2013 · production page (archived version) ▶ Listen at the source ↗
اجرا · Ricardo Iniesta · Compañía Atalaya, Seville · photos ▶ Listen at the source ↗
اجرا · Amy Hodge · Julie Hesmondhalgh (adapted by Anna Jordan) · Headlong and Royal Exchange, Manchester · 2019 · photos (Guardian gallery, along with photos of productions with Judi Dench 1984, Glenda Jackson 1990, Diana Rigg 1995, Meryl Streep 2006 and Kathleen Turner 2014) ▶ Listen at the source ↗
اجرا · Ulrich Rasche · Berliner Ensemble, Großes Haus, Berlin · 2027 (opening 24 January) · production page ▶ Listen at the source ↗
ترجمه · Mostafa Rahimi · Niloufar Publishing (titled "Mother Courage and Her Children"; 11th printing 1997–98) · 2020–21 (current printing) · print and e-book ▶ Listen at the source ↗
نقد · Azizollah Haji-Mashhadi · Cinema Cinema (August 2024) · mixed ▶ Listen at the source ↗
نقد · Henryk Keisch · Neues Deutschland (1961), cited on German Wikipedia · admiring ▶ Listen at the source ↗
These performances are variants of the piece and may differ from the score on this card.
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- Author
- Bertolt Brecht and Erich Engel / Bertolt Brecht
- Year
- 1949
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- Staging Styles & Methods
- Type
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