Mother Courage

We went to see Mother Courage - A brechtian play at Greenwich theatre. This play was quite brechtian - Alienation technique used perfectly when Mother Courage is seen near the start of the play sinigng a lullaby to one of her daughters making us see her as the conventional loving mother. However, This is turned on it's head when she turns out to be a money-driven bad mother who coldly gave money for that same daughter's funeral with no emotion on her face.
Mother Courage herself is the representation of Alienation and irony because we as an audience start to question What kind of person Mother Courage is? Why she is even called Mother Courage? Is she actually courageous?. It gets the audience questioning everything about eh play - Which incidently, Is exactly what Brecht wants to happen!