Mother Courage and Her Children - rehearsal images released
Casting news
IMAGES have been released of Josie Lawrence and the cast rehearsing Mother Courage and Her Children. To view them, click here.
Previously Posted: Final casting has been announced for a new production of Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children. Translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning Tony Kushner and starring multi award-winning Josie Lawrence, it runs at Southwark Playhouse from November 6 (previews from November 2) to December 9, 2017.
Joining Lawrence are Laura Checkley, one half of award-winning comedy duo Checkley & Bush, whose theatre credits include Gone With The Wind in the West End; Ivy Corbin (Masha in Three Sisters, Union Theatre); Celeste de Veazey (The Bureau of Lost Things, Theatre 503); Rosalind Ford (These Trees Are Made of Blood, Arcola Theatre); Ben Fox (Andre in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The Commitments, West End)…
…Jake Phillips Head (a recent graduate of Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, making his professional debut); Shiv Jalota (The Grapes of Wrath, West Yorkshire Playhouse); Julian Moore-Cook (Rolling Stone, Orange Tree, Our American Cousin, Finborough Theatre); Nuno Queimado (Jesus Christ Superstar, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and From Here to Eternity, West End); David Shelley (Windows, Finborough Theatre, King John, Rose Theatre); and Phoebe Vigor (Jane Eyre, National Theatre).
Mother Courage and Her Children has been described as the greatest anti-war play of all time. It remains a timely exploration of displacement, war weariness and invisible enemies. It mirrored then, as it does now, the growing fear at the ever-advancing threat of terror infiltrating our everyday lives and our desire to protect ourselves and what is ours at any cost.
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