Mother Courage and Her Children

"And all the time you might say we’re sinking lower and lower, and it’s true what the song says, and soup is few and far between, and if we weren’t like this but thieves and murderers I dare say we’d be eating our fill. For virtues aren’t their own reward, only wickednesses are, that’s how the world goes and it didn’t ought to.” – says the Cook in Bertolt Brecht’s play written in 1939. As the issue of war made Mother Courage relevant in the times when the play was born, its other themes, morals, money, omnipotence of business interests and strategies for surviving, make the play relevant for 21^st century audiences, too.