Courage Circus

Courage Circus

In collaboration with the Kibbutz Seminar school of theater and dance,

Based on Mother Courage and her children, by Bertold Brecht,1939

Mother Courage is a   merchant moving with her Canteen wagon along with her two sons and mute daughter across Europe, on the footsteps of the fighting armies. In  her wandering Mother Courage tries to survive and still benefit from the war.

Igal Ezraty and Gaby Aldor located the performance in a Circus-"…by this strange  juxtaposition  of a tragedy  and a circus we tried to create a renviroment which moves us between the amusing to the shocking: a grotesque experience which is perhaps our outcry, the only outcry possible vis-a vis a reality In which killing, corruption  and madness are taking place amidst a joyous celebration…"

 Based on the translation  by Shimon Sandbank:

Adaptation and Directing: Igal Ezraty.

Direction and movement:Gaby Aldor, 

Set and Costumes design:Karin David.

Music: Paul Dessau, Kurt  Weil, Gili Sa'ar, Ofer Shalchin,

Lighting Design: Ziv Voloshin.

Circus training: Eran Lavie,

Voice  coaching: Chedva Mahler

and with the participation of the young actors group of the theater