“Mother Courage” Trades Sympathy for Spectacle, at Ubuntu, Oakland
Millennial Notes Bertolt Brecht Releases Voices Crushed by War by Tyler Jeffreys “It’s a blessing to be dumb,” says Mother Courage (Wilma Bonet) while kissing her youngest non-speaking daughter Kattrin (Rolanda D. Bell). When I hear this, I remember being blind to the monstrosities of our world, especially war. War is for the politicians,…