The main role of the play ‘Mother Courage and Her Children’ was played by the actress of the BereznikI Drama Theater TamAra GladkOva. Gladkova was born in MUrom in 1921. The professional career of the actress began in 1937 at the Murom Drama Theater. During the war, the theater was closed, and 20-year-old Tamara went to work as a nurse in an evacuation center, while doing the work of a freelance political worker.
After the war, Tamara GladkOva returned to the theater stage. The wide creative range of the actress allowed her to create a number of interesting images of Soviet women-contemporaries, expressive characters in the roles of Russian and foreign classical repertoire. She performed on the stages of the Moscow Youth Theater and regional theaters. Half of her career, 25 years old, GladkOva was employed by the BereznikI Drama Theater.
‘Mother Courage and Her Children’ with the subtitle ‘Chronicle of the Thirty Years War’ is a play by the German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht. Brecht wrote it in 1938-1939, the play became one of the most striking incarnations of Brecht’s theory of “epic theater”.
The play takes place during the Thirty Years War. The military conflict over power in the Holy Roman Empire and Europe lasted from 1618 to 1648. The Hapsburg bloc participated in the war - the Austrian and Spanish Habsburgs, the Catholic princes of Germany, the papacy - and the anti-Habsburg coalition - the Protestant princes of Germany, as well as Denmark, Sweden, Holland and France.
There is a war going on. Mother Courage wants to keep everything that she has - the wagon, the savings gained during the war, but most importantly - her children. She works hard in a war. She has to move with her cart from city to city, from one train to another. She does everything to save her life. She learns to adapt to different situations, to people in order to survive and live on.
The play poses an important problem of choice that faces each of the characters, as well as in the life of each person. The author also emphasizes how war changes some people beyond recognition, and for someone, in spite of everything, the most important thing is the preservation of human relations.
Epic Theater is a concept that Bertolt Brecht has been developing since the mid-1920s. The playwright was looking for artistic means for the embodiment of large-scale themes: war, hired labor, money. Unlike “dramatic” theater, built on the development of action, epic theater, with its conventional artistic space and symbolism, implies not so much showing events as narrating about them. One of the features of such a theater is the introduction of elements of the story, and often the storyteller himself.
After the war, Tamara GladkOva returned to the theater stage. The wide creative range of the actress allowed her to create a number of interesting images of Soviet women-contemporaries, expressive characters in the roles of Russian and foreign classical repertoire. She performed on the stages of the Moscow Youth Theater and regional theaters. Half of her career, 25 years old, GladkOva was employed by the BereznikI Drama Theater.
‘Mother Courage and Her Children’ with the subtitle ‘Chronicle of the Thirty Years War’ is a play by the German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht. Brecht wrote it in 1938-1939, the play became one of the most striking incarnations of Brecht’s theory of “epic theater”.
The play takes place during the Thirty Years War. The military conflict over power in the Holy Roman Empire and Europe lasted from 1618 to 1648. The Hapsburg bloc participated in the war - the Austrian and Spanish Habsburgs, the Catholic princes of Germany, the papacy - and the anti-Habsburg coalition - the Protestant princes of Germany, as well as Denmark, Sweden, Holland and France.
There is a war going on. Mother Courage wants to keep everything that she has - the wagon, the savings gained during the war, but most importantly - her children. She works hard in a war. She has to move with her cart from city to city, from one train to another. She does everything to save her life. She learns to adapt to different situations, to people in order to survive and live on.
The play poses an important problem of choice that faces each of the characters, as well as in the life of each person. The author also emphasizes how war changes some people beyond recognition, and for someone, in spite of everything, the most important thing is the preservation of human relations.
Epic Theater is a concept that Bertolt Brecht has been developing since the mid-1920s. The playwright was looking for artistic means for the embodiment of large-scale themes: war, hired labor, money. Unlike “dramatic” theater, built on the development of action, epic theater, with its conventional artistic space and symbolism, implies not so much showing events as narrating about them. One of the features of such a theater is the introduction of elements of the story, and often the storyteller himself.
