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A lone woman, Anna Fierling, tries to achieve the irreconcilable aims of making money and keeping her family alive during the nightmare of the Thirty Years War.At the end of a century ravaged by war on an unprecedented scale, Bertolt Brecht's great masterpiece of silence and survival seems only to have grown in stature since its premiere in 1941.This version by David Hare was premiered by the National Theatre, London, in November 1995.Hare, David is the author of 'Mother Courage (Modern Plays)', published 1995 under ISBN 9780413702906 and ISBN 0413702901.
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