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Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage"
Terror Alert! Code Orange! The S.O.B. Theatre Co. has hijacked
Bertollt Brecht’s Mother Courage and is driving it into the
quagmire that is modern day Iraq! Brecht’s classic play is about a
war of profit, dressed up by political leaders as a “moral
crusade.” Sound familiar? In our current climate of fear and
government deception, Mother Courage is now more relevant than ever.
While keeping true to the play’s anti-war dogma, the S.O.B.s revel
in the absurd humor so abundant, and often overlooked, in Brecht’s
work.
December 31, 2004 -- The Sons of Beckett Theatre Company has been
receiving critical acclaim since its inaugural production, Waiting
for Godot (2002) was called "a zany bittersweet presentation”
and “superb" by LA Weekly. The S.O.B.’s irreverent,
vaudevillian music-hall adaptation of a classic, Oedipus the King,
was praised by the LA Times as “sublime...blindingly funny.”
Director Jeffrey Wienckowski’s most recent production, The Other
Shore, was awarded the Critic’s Pick by BackStage West. Critic Les
Spindle praised the “spellbinding sense of surrealism in the
actors’ graceful movement,” calling the production a
“timelessly compelling vision.”
Production: Mother Courage
Author: Bertolt Brecht
Producers: S.O.B. Theatre Company
Director: Jeffrey Wienckowski
Dates: January 7 through February 5, 2005
Fri. and Sat. @ 8pm, Sun. @ 2pm
Venue: Theatre/Theater
6425 Hollywood Blvd. (4th Floor)
Admission: $15 general, $10 students
Reservations: (323) 465-3136
Cast: Erin McBride Africa, Eric Carter, David DeLeon, Kristen
Hansen, Marvin Hernandez,Brian Johnson, Heidi Kushnatsian, Lee Anne
Moore, Pete Pano, Ari Radousky, and Colin Willkie
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