'Mother Courage and her Children' Scene I 3/10/16

In today's lesson, we were split into two groups and started to read though scene 1 of our first play called 'Mother Courage and her children' by Brecht. In my group, we decided that I would play the Recruitment officer. This scene is about finding people to recruit for the army to fight in the war, and the sergeant and rec. officer come across Mother Courage's children, who are fit and healthy and the rec. officer wants to recruit them, and if he doesn't he'll kill himself because he hasn't recruited anyone. We all found it very hard to read through the script at first because we had no idea what was going on and the dialect was very strange, so when we said our lines they didn't make much sense because we had no idea how each character was feeling, nor did we know anything about the characters. However once we done some research, we understood the script much better and it all began to make a whole lot of sense.