PHOTO CALL: Fiona Shaw Is Mother Courage for National Theatre

By Ernio Hernandez
22 Sep 2009

Fiona Shaw stars in the title role of Tony Kushner's translation of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage at London's National Theatre.

Deborah Warner directs the new take on the classic at the company's Olivier Theatre. The production features original music by Duke Special.

As NT notes read: "Mother Courage, one of the most astonishing stage creations of the twentieth century, drags her cart across the battlefields, profiteering from a war that destroys her children, one by one."

The cast also includes Anthony Mark Barrow, William J Cassidy, Johannes Flaschberger. Jonathan Gunthorpe, Stephen Kennedy, Youssef Kerkour, Martin Marquez, Louis McKenzie, Kyle McPhail, Siobhán McSweeney, Harry Melling, Eleanor Montgomery, Stephen O'Toole, Charlotte Randle, Guy Rhys, Clifford Samuel, Gary Sefton, Roger Sloman, Colin Stinton, Sophie Stone, Morgan Watkins and Sargon Yelda.

Here is a first look at the production:

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Fiona Shaw
Photo by Anthony Luvera

For more information visit nationaltheatre.org.uk .