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Mother Courage Alone

In 2017, Fermat's Last Theater is expanding to a year round season of work, beginning with their Brecht Project, an 18-month exploration of Mother Courage and Her Children. In fall 2017 and spring of 2018, they are producing workshops titled Mother Courage Alone. The fall performances (Thursday-Saturday, September 28, 29 & 30, 7:30pm at Arts + Literature Laboratory) will be a condensed, linear retelling of the play with one actress, one narrator and one musician. Each show will be followed by a panel discussion about the issues raised by the play - the fate of civilians and refugees caught in seemingly endless war.

Fermat's Last Theater makes theater available for FREE to everyone and asks those who value their work to donate. Details are on their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/FLTCo/ and website http://fermatstheater.org.

Fermat's Last Theater

The name for Fermat’s Last Theater came about because one member of the company, upon re-reading The Merchant of Venice, had an idea for a production, but as with the 17th century mathematician, his conception was too large to include all the details in the margin of the of text.

We are a political theater—we stage works that explore issues of class, race and gender. Founded as a Shakespeare company in 2013, we have in recent years been exploring the genre of documentary theater—theater about real people, events and social movements. 

We are a free theater. You will never be asked to buy a ticket to gain admittance to any of our work. We believe that being a political theater is inextricably linked with being a free theater. We pay our performers, and rely on a network of individual donors and city, state and national granting agencies to fund our shows. At the end of each performance, we do ask for free will donations for those able to contribute. 

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