Mother Courage and Her Children review " Julie Hesmondhalgh is the business by Catherine Love

Royal Exchange, ManchesterIt's 2080 and Europe is in shreds in Anna Jordan's new version of Brecht's play, which has a compelling central performance War " what is it good for? Business, Mother Courage would reply. When he wrote Mother Courage and Her Children in 1939, Brecht made that point by setting his play during the 17th-century thirty years' war " a distant, bloody and largely pointless conflict. But in Anna J…

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