A NEW translation of Bertolt Brecht's The Mother will be performed at the Bolton Octagon from Tuesday to Saturday, April 24 to 28, at 7.30pm.
The revival undertaken by Steve Trafford celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of Brecht's own production for the Berliner Ensemble.
It is part of a tour by Visiting Moon Productions in association with Theatre by the Lake, Keswick. An educational programme from Visiting Moon will be available to accompany the performances, further details of which are from the Octagon's Activ8 on 556501.
The Mother reflects a time when politics was a game of life and death. Written in 1931, when Brecht dared to defy creeping Nazism with biting satire and wicked song, The Mother is a direct and moving play about the power of passionate belief, spiced with salty humour.
The story follows the journey of Pelagae Vlassova in the years before the 1917 revolution. Her struggle for existence for herself and her sons draws her reluctantly into the whirlpool of agitation in pre-revolutionary Russia. When her son becomes imprisoned she becomes the mother to the revolution, epitomising heroic working class womanhood.
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