Opening Night: 26 November 2016
Author: Bertolt Brecht
Music: Paul Dessau
Title: Mother Courage and Her Children
Original Title: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder
Translator: Jacek St. Buras
Director: Michał Zadara

Auditorium: Boguslawski Hall
Running time: 3 hours 15 min, one interval

Mother Courage and Her Children

Warsaw on fire.

In September 1939 Bertolt Brecht had written the play about the Thirty Years' War in 18th century.
In November 2016 the play is being staged by Michał Zadara, who's having a war of 2025 in mind.


director: Michał Zadara
set designer: Robert Rumas 
costume designer: Julia Kornacka
musical arrangement: Jacek „Budyń” Szymkiewicz
associate director: Marta Streker 
lighting designer, video: Artur Sienicki
vocal preparation: Andrzej Perkman 

Cast:

Mother Courage Danuta Stenka
Kattrin Barbara Wysocka (guest actress) / Anna Gryszkówna
Eilif  Paweł Paprocki
Swiss Cheese Karol Dziuba
Chaplain Zbigniew Zamachowski (as a guest actor from December 31, 2017)
Cook Arkadiusz Janiczek
Yvette Ewa Konstancja Bułhak
Old Lady / Peasant Sławomira Łozińska
Peasant / Colonel Mirosław Konarowski
Scrivener / Housewife / Voice Kinga Ilgner
Corporal / Soldier Kamilla Baar-Kochańska / Anna Lobedan (from February 21, 2018)
Soldier / Commander Oskar Hamerski
Recruiting Officer Bartłomiej Bobrowski
Colonel Robert Jarociński
Sergeant / Older Soldier Waldemar Kownacki
The Man with the Eye Patch / Young Man / Soldier / Young Peasant Adrian Zaremba (as a guest actor from December 31, 2017)
Supply Officer / Householder / Soldier Paweł Tołwiński
Musician Anna Lobedan
Musician Tomasz Licak (guest musician)


In a music band, too: Paweł Paprocki, Karol Dziuba
Cardboard model camera operators: Kinga Ilgner, Bartłomiej Bobrowski, Paweł Tołwiński

Production team:

  • director's assistant: Anna Gryszkówna
  • sound technicians: Mariusz Maszewski, Rafał Barański
  • lighting technicians: Zbigniew Szulim, Bartłomiej Kaczalski  
  • video projection: Mariusz Chałubek, Paweł Woźniak 
  • stage manager: Ewa Dworecka
  • prompter: Małgorzata Zaufal

Gallery:

Danuta Stenka (Mother Courage) in the foreground. Phot. Krzysztof Bieliński

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