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Barta Heiner says goodbye to BYU with ‘Mother Courage and Her Children’
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Barta Heiner stars in "Mother Courage and Her Children" at BYU.
Courtesy of Jaren Wilkey
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Barta Heiner, Dallin Halls, Leah Hodson and Jordan Nicholes as Mother Courage, Eilif, Kattrin and Swiss Cheese (or as Mother Courage and her children).
Courtesy of Jaren Wilkey
An accomplished performer and professor, Barta Lee Heiner is taking a final bow at Brigham Young University before she retires later this year.
”I’m graduating, I’m finally graduating,” Heiner said with a laugh in an interview in her BYU office.
The vehicle for her farewell is the 1939 German play “Mother Courage and Her Children” by Bertolt Brecht: a play that packs an anti-war message as well as a complex starring role for Heiner.
”It’s considered one of the modern classics,” said David Morgan, who is directing the production.
Brecht wrote the play in Germany during the 1930s, when f