MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN at Southern Rep Theatre
Dates: (1/24/2020 - 2/8/2020 )
Southern Rep Theatre |
2541 Bayou Road
New Orleans, 70119
Phone: (504) 522-6545
Tickets: $28-45
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Poet-Playwright Ntozake Shange (FOR COLORED GIRLS) adapted Bertolt Brechts classic drama in 1980, transposing the action from Europe during the Thirty Years War to the American Southwest after the Civil War. Mother Courage struggles to survive the war by profiting from it but ends up paying the ultimate cost.The play, which earned Shange an Obie Award, has never been published or performed since its premiere at the Public Theater in 1980. Now pulled from the archives at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library for this production, Shanges adaptation puts a uniquely American spin on Brechts classic drama that forces us to ask how, in the darkest of times, do we survive with our humanity intact?
Featuring the Southern Rep Theatre Acting Company, the cast of MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN will include Sarah Nansubuga as Mother Courage, Ily Bernabel, Jeffrey Darensbourg, Lola Darling, Leland Ensminger, Joe Fredo, Rahim Glaspy, LaKesha Glover, Mack Guillory, Rodney Graham, Donald Lewis, Mona Naswari, Josef Pons, Elexis Selmon, and Lawrence Weber.This production contains racialized violence, racially charged language, racist terms, and theatrical haze.
Performances
Fri Jan 24 @ 7:30 (Preview Performance)
Sat Jan 25 @ 7:30 (Preview Performance)
Sun Jan 26 @ 3:00 (additional seating has been opened)
Thurs Jan 30 @ 7:30
Fri Jan 31 @ 7:30
Sat Feb 1 @ 7:30
Sun Feb 2 @ 3:00
Mon Feb 3 @ 7:30
Thurs Feb 6 @ 7:30
Fri Feb 7 @ 7:30
Sat Feb 8 @ 7:30 - Show must close!
Cast and Creative team for MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN at Southern Rep Theatre
Recruiting Officer/Ordnance Officer/Farmer’s Son - Rahim Glaspy
Soldier/Clerk/Farmer - Donald Lewis*
Mother Courage - Sarah Nansubuga**
Enoch - Josef Pons
Smoked Cheese/Soldier - Mack Guillory**
Katie - Elexis Selmon**
Cook - Rodney Graham**
General/Rancher/Soldier/Old Tough/Young Mestizo Boy - Leland Ensminger
Chaplain - Lawrence E. Weber*
Yvette - LaKesha Glover**
Deputy/Man with Patch/Ranger/Farmer - Mona Naswari**
Man in Rebel’s Clothes/Soldier/Ranger/Farmer - Joe Fredo**
Young Tough/Mestizo Woman - Ilyanette Bernabel**
Kiowa Woman - Lola Darling
Kiowa Brave - Jeffery Darensbourg
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association ** Equity Member Candidate
News About MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN at Southern Rep Theatre
Southern Rep Theatre Announces GoFundMe Campaign To Keep Its Doors Open
March 05, 2020Nationally acclaimed new play development theatre, Southern Rep, finds itself in a heartbreaking situation. Ticket sales and mainstage subscriptions are at an all-time high. Arts education programming is thriving. Audiences are raving about the work and the company's new venue, the former St. Rose de Lima Church on Bayou Road. And still, Southern Rep finds itself in an urgent financial crisis as it navigates the expenses of moving into their new home.
Southern Rep Theatre Announces Its 2019-2020 Mainstage Season
April 30, 2019Southern Rep Theatre (Producing Artistic Director Aimee Hayes) has announced plans for the 2019-20 Mainstage Season and the future of Southern Rep, now located in its permanent home at 2541 Bayou Road, New Orleans. The 2019-20 Mainstage Season, its 33rd, will feature Regional Premieres of AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY by Tracy Letts, NATIVE GARDENS by Karen Zacarias, and Bertolt Brecht's MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN, translated by Ntozake Shange. In addition, back by popular demand and updated for the holiday season will be MANDATORY MERRIMENT (PART DEUX): A NEW ORLEANS HOLIDAY MUSICAL created by Leslie Castay and Ian Hoch. The season will also feature the NNPN (National New Play Network) Rolling World Premiere of REYKJAVIKby Steve Yockey (in partnership with the Saints & Sinners Literary Festival), and the home-grown World Premiere of CHEMIN DU BAYOU by local New Orleans playwright Pamela Davis-Noland.
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Southern Rep Theatre is at 2541 Bayou Road, New Orleans.
Southern Rep produces critically acclaimed, and artistically meaningful productions with pre-show and post-show talkbacks, interactive lobby installations, and other special events, Southern Rep doesn’t just present artistic work, we give audiences a chance to explore what makes it meaningful. Educational, engaging, and accessibly- priced, our productions encourage audience members of every background to develop their interest in New Orleans’ theatre and art. Southern Rep serves as a resource for emerging playwrights, performers, and other theatre professionals in the Gulf South with a commitment to new play development and developing professional artists. We offer opportunities for them to explore their craft, and publically showcase their work – all important and rare opportunities that “untested” playwrights, directors, and performers require to advance their careers.
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