Mother Courage and Her Children

А humble trader struggling desperately to survive

Director: Sapir Heller

Music: Paul Dessau

Translated to Hebrew by Anat Gov

Songs translated by Eli Bijaoui

Set Design: Mikhail Kramenko

Costume Design: Alona Rudnev

Music Director: Avi Benyamin

Movement: Polina Dreyden

Lighting: Alexander Sikirin

Sound: Felix Shaposhnik

Assistant Director: Inbal Gozlan

Cast: Evgenia Dodina, Avi Azulai, Alexander Senderovich, Alon Friedman,  Shlomi Bertonov / Yuval Yanai , Nikita Goldman, Shir Sayag / Noam Tal.

Mother Courage, also known as Anna Fierling, is a humble trader struggling desperately to survive and feed her children amid a never-ending war. She finds herself trapped in a merciless dependency: the soldiers need her goods, and she, in turn, depends on the war continuing, so she can sustain her trade. But every war has its losers and winners. Though Mother Courage profits meagerly, she ultimately loses everything.

This masterpiece by Bertolt Brecht portrays a strong woman forced to make harrowing decisions. How does one maintain resilience and hope when everything around is collapsing?

The play was written in 1939, during the Second World War, and tells the story of the Thirty Years’ War. Today, we revisit this work in the shadow of modern-day military conflicts, recognizing how strikingly relevant its themes remain.

This production is directed by Sapir Heller, born in Israel in 1989, who has been living and working in Munich since 2008. She studied at the University of Music and Theatre Munich, supported by a Heinrich Böll Foundation scholarship.

In recent years, her works have been successfully staged in some of Germany’s leading theaters, including Schauspiel Frankfurt, the Essen theaters, Dresden State Theater, Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, and theaters in Augsburg, Mannheim, Lübeck, Regensburg, as well as the renowned Volkstheater in Munich.

Premiere: December 6, 2025

Performance duration: two hours and 15 minutes with intermission.

Photo: Stanislav Pospelov, Luisa Salomon, Sergey Demyanchuk.