A play by this author includes an epilogue apologizing to the audience for the play's lack of a fitting ending.
A play by this author includes an epilogue apologizing to the audience for the play's lack of a fitting ending. In that play, a cross-dressing former prostitute receives one thousand silver dollars from a trio of gods, and eventually opens a tobacco factory. A character created by this author receives her nickname for navigating a bombarded city in order to sell fifty moldy loaves of bread. That character's children include the mute Kattrin, the brave Eilif, and the honest Swiss Cheese. For 10 points, name this German playwright of The Good Person of Szechwan, who wrote about the title canteen wagon owner during the Thirty Years' War in Mother Courage and Her Children. 
A play by this author includes an epilogue apologizing to the audience for the play's lack of a fitting ending.
Bertolt Brecht [or Eugen Bertolt Friedrich Brecht]