George Steiner praised Helene Weigel's (VY-gel's) performance of this role for "making the audience bow their heads as if they had been hit by a blast of wind." For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this character, who delivers a "silent scream" on stage after refusing to acknowledge the body of her son, Swiss Cheese.
ANSWER: Mother Courage [or Mutter Courage or Anna Fierling or Anna Fierling]
[10e] This German playwright wrote Mother Courage and her Children, whose title character was interpreted on stage by his wife Helene Weigel.
ANSWER: Bertolt Brecht [Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht]
[10h] Mother Courage and her Children was partly written by Margarete Steffin, who also collaborated on this Brecht play. The central character of this "parable play" seduces Ignatius Dullfeet's wife Betty in a scene that parallels Richard III ("the third").
ANSWER: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui [or Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui]
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