Mother Courage and her children

For Sarah's birthday a trip to Manchester's Royal Exchange to see the wonderful Julie Hesmondhalgh as Mother Courage in Bertolt Brecht's scorching anti war play, but which is about so much more - about the permanent war economy based on profiteering and massive arms sales, about how human values are sacrificed at the altar of greed. With NATO warmongering across the planet from the Middle East to Venezuela, and arms treaties being shredded, Brecht's heartbreaking masterpiece is never more relevant.
Extra is mother Courage's truck from which she sold food drugs weapons and anything else the soldiers could buy, paying the eventual price of the loss of all her 3 children.

MOTHER COURAGE: I won't have you folk spoiling my war for me. I'm told it kills off the weak, but they're write-off in peacetime too. And war gives its people a better deal.
She sings:

And if you feel your forces fading
You won't be there to share the fruits.
But what is war but private trading
That deals in blood instead of boots?