Mother Courage Alone
Arts + Literature Laboratory 111 S. Livingston St., Madison, Wisconsin 53703
David Simmons
Gail Grigg stars in "Mother Courage Alone."
Gail Grigg stars in "Mother Courage Alone," Fermat's Last Theater Company, 2024.
media release: Fermat's Last Theater Company's Mother Courage Alone reprise is April 5/6/7 at the ArtLitLab, 111 S. Livingston. The Friday show is at 7:30 PM and will be followed by a discussion with UW Associate Professor of Anthropology Nam Kim, on the origins and causes of war in early human populations. Saturday and Sunday shows are 2 PM matinees
Written in Sept/Oct of 1939, shortly after the German invasion of Poland, the play is set during the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) and raises uncomfortable questions about who profits and who loses in war - Mother Courage is herself a war profiteer, though on a very small scale. This dramatic reading of our adaptation with music features Gail Grigg as Mother C, Maggie Schenk as the narrator with music by Diana Wheeler. Script adaptation by David Simmons.
The shows are all free and open to the public.