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Threepenny opera

First staged in Berlin in 1928, The Threepenny Opera remains one of Brecht's most performed plays. Based on John Gay's 18th century satire, The Beggar's Opera, the play is a satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic.

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  • "Dreigroschenoper"@en
  • "Threepenny opera"
  • "Dreigroschen oper English"
  • "Seven deadly sins of the petty bourgeoisie"
  • "Rise and fall of the City of Mahagonny"
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  • "First staged in Berlin in 1928, The Threepenny Opera remains one of Brecht's most performed plays. Based on John Gay's 18th century satire, The Beggar's Opera, the play is a satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic."@en
  • ""Brutal, scandalous, perverted, yet humorous, hummable, and with a happy ending- Bertolt Brecht's revolutionary masterpiece The Threepenny Opera is a landmark of modern drama that has become embedded in the Western cultural imagination. Through the love story of Polly Peachum and "Mack the Knife" Macheath, the play satirizes the bourgeois of the Weimar Republic, revealing a society at the height of decadence and on the verge of chaos. Complemented with music by Kurt Weill, it was one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce jazz into the theater, and the song "Mack the Knife" became one of the most popular and widely recorded songs of the twentieth century."--Book cover."
  • "Brecht's famous adaptation to the modern era of John Gay's The beggar's opera, satirizing social and political beliefs through its portrayal of a world of thieves and prostitutes."
  • "First staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin (now the home of the Berliner Ensemble), The Threepenny Opera remains one of Brecht's best loved and most performed plays. Based on John Gay's eighteenth-century Beggar's Opera, the play is a satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. With Kurt Weill's music, which was one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce the jazz idiom into the theatre, it became a popular hit throughout the western world. This translation by John Willett and Ralph Manheim includes Brecht's own notes and discarded songs as well as an extensive editorial commentary on the genesis of the play."
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  • "Threepenny opera"@en
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  • "The threepenny opera : with the author's notes and foreword by Lotte Lenya"
  • "The Threepenny Opera"@en
  • "The Threepenny Opera"
  • "Threepenny Opera"
  • "Bertolt Brecht collected plays"@en
  • "Bertolt Brecht collected plays"
  • "Collected plays [of] Bertolt Brecht"
  • "Collected plays [of] Bertolt Brecht"@en
  • "The threepenny opera = Die Dreigroschenoper"@en
  • "The threepenny opera = Die Dreigroschenoper"
  • "The Threepenny opera"
  • "The Threepenny opera"@da
  • "The Threepenny opera"@en
  • "The three penny opera"@en
  • "The three penny opera"
  • "The threepenny opera : with the autor' notes"
  • "The Threepenny Opera. With the Author's Notes and a Foreword by Lotte Lenya. English Book by Desmond Vesey. English Lyrics by Eric Bentley"@en
  • "The threepenny opera : with the author's notes and a foreword by Lotte Lenya"@en
  • "The threepenny opera = die Dreigroschenoper"@en
  • "The Threepenny opera = die Dreigroschenoper"@en
  • "Bertolt Brecht collected plays. Vol. 6, Pt. 2, Resistible rise of Arturo Ui"@en
  • "The threepenny opera"
  • "The threepenny opera"@en

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