In Mother Courage and Her Children there is a scene where Courage and is warning off the commanders from her eldest son. In theater we see the humor of the scene and we do not fail to laugh, though when I read the scene, I felt almost sorry for Courage.
I feel she is an internally conflicted person and, especially because she is in a dire state of money, people are quick to label her as an ironically, mentally "ill" character - or crazy - because, not the sole fact, that she is a woman. In other works (A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams), it is easy to see the woman as "crazy" than to think she may actually have something internally wrong with her. I also feel that courage has a deeper struggle than what readers want to believe, or what the author leads readers to see.
The live version of the play is already distracting enough. There are scenes happening at the same time and the audience is faced with decided which act to pay attention to. Detail can be missed in the play, where as while reading it, you are able to refer back to the text if you misinterpreted something or missed a slight detail.
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