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"Original work entitled Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder"--T.p. verso "Mother Courage and her children, in this translation, had its first British production in the Olivier auditorium of the National Theatre, London, on 9 September 2009"--P. 5 "It isn't easy, starting a war, but nothing worthwhile is easy. And once you're in, you're hooked like a gambler, you can't afford to walk away from the crapshoot once you're deep into it." "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." "This translation by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner is inventive and vigorous, making Brecht's epic drama and its powerful indictment of war accessible to twenty-first century audiences." "Tony Kushner's Mother Courage and her Children premiered at The Delacorte Theater, New York, on 21 August 2006 and was revived at the National Theatre on 16 September 2009."--BOOK JACKET