Fiona Shaw Will Lead National Theatre's MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN, Runs Sept 9 - Dec 8

The National Theatre has announced the full cast and creative team for its upcoming production of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children. The show will play the Olivier, running September 9 through December 8.

Mother Courage, one of the most astonishing stage creations of the twentieth century, drags her cart across the battlefields, profiteering from a war that destroys her children, one by one.

It isn't easy, starting a war, but nothing worthwhile is easy. And once you're in, you're hooked like a gambler, you can't afford to walk away from the crapshoot once you're deep into it.

Fiona Shaw returns to the National to take the title role in Tony Kushner's inventive and vigorous translation of Bertolt Brecht's uncompromising masterpiece. New live music by Duke Special and his band infuses this wildfire production from the team whose many international credits include Happy Days and Medea.

'Mother Courage' will also feature Anthony Mark Barrow, William J Cassidy, Johannes Flaschberger, Peter Gowen, Jonathan Gunthorpe, Stephen Kennedy, Youssef Kerkour, Martin Marquez, Louis McKenzie, Kyle McPhail, Siobhán McSweeney, Harry Melling, Eleanor Montgomery, Stephen O'Toole, Charlotte Randle, Guy Rhys, Clifford Samuel, Gary Sefton, Roger Sloman, Colin Stinton, Sophie Stone, Morgan Watkins, and Sargon Yelda.

The creative team for the production includes Director Deborah Warner, Set Designer Tom Pye, Associate Designer Vicki Fifield, Costume Designer Ruth Myers, Lighting Designer Jean Kalman, Composer Duke Special, Video Designers Lysander Ashton & Mark Grimmer, and Sound Designers Andrew Bruce & Nick Lidster.

For more information and to purchase tickets, call the Box Office on 020 7 452 3000, Mon-Sat 9.30am-8pm, or visit www.nationaltheatre.org.uk.