The Threepenny Opera
(Author) Bertolt BrechtOne of Bertolt Brecht's best-loved and most performed plays, The Threepenny Opera was first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin (now the home of the Berliner Ensemble). Based on the eighteenth-century The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, the play is a satire on the bourgeois 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 new edition is published here in John Willett and Ralph Manhein's classic translation with commentary and notes by Anja Hartl.
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht was a German playwright and poet known for his epic theatre style, which aimed to provoke critical thinking and social change. His most famous work, "The Threepenny Opera," challenged conventional theatre norms with its satirical and politically charged themes. Brecht's contributions to literature revolutionized modern drama.
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