This thesis will discuss how adaptation is a useful tool to keep Mother Courage and her Children relevant in the modern day. By placing the narrative in a new country, Mexico, it also opens the door to increase representation of the Latinx community. The adaptation showcases the similarities in the issues some people in Mexico face, and the central issues of Bertolt Brecht’s original play. The adaptation also comments on the use of trigger warnings in a production. Using Augusto Boal’s theory of theater of the oppressed and “spect-actor,” I will demonstrate how the audience’s actions directly influence the ending of the show, and the importance of the audience feeling that change is possible. My adaptation, La Madre de los Valientes y los Violentos, has the option of two different endings where the key difference is the survival of the youngest daughter. I will discuss how the study of Learned Helplessness influenced my decision to give the play a less negative ending.