Mother Courage and Her Children

Artistic director Michelle Terry’s new thing for Globe summer seasons seem to be giving one slot over to a classic twentieth century play and let them have fun in the Elizabethan playhouse’s big, uncoventional space. Last year it was Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, and this year it’ll be young Bertold Brecht’s turn to make his debut as Elle While directs his 1939 anti-war classic Mother Courage and Her Children. Terry herself will takre on the eponymous role of war profiteer Mother Courage, whose children are gradually killed off by the conflicts she herself profits from. All other casting is TBC.