Performed: Spring 2013
Director: Eleanor Reissa
Music Director: Dianne Adams McDowell
Director: Eleanor Reissa
Music Director: Dianne Adams McDowell
Inspired by John Gay’s 18th-century Beggar’s Opera, this brutal yet humorous show revolutionized the theater with its satire of bourgeois capitalism and modern morality. Through the love story of Polly Peachum and Macheath (better known as “Mac the Knife”), The Threepenny Opera portrays a society at the height of decadence and on the verge of chaos. With its unexpected plot twists, hummable tunes, and improbable happy ending, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s masterpiece has been staged in countless productions all over the world. English adaptation by Marc Blitzstein. Presented through special arrangement with R&H Theatricals.