Lowry, SalfordWherever the dirty, the oppressed and the battle-weary gather, there will always be an opportunist on hand to sell them some tat. Bertolt Brecht's epic may be about a bafflingly long and pointless 17th-century conflict, but it is also a play for our time. If Mother Courage were alive today, there's little doubt she would be peddling bootleg T-shirts and smoking paraphernalia at Glastonbury festival.Tony…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:55AM on March 3, 2013