Threepenny Opera

One of Bertolt Brecht's best-loved and most performed plays <i>The Threepenny Opera</i>was first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm Berlin (now the home of the Berliner Ensemble). <br/><br/>Based on the eighteenth-century <i>The Beggar's Opera</i> by John Gay the play is a satire on the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. <br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>This new edition is published here in John Willett and Ralph Manhein's classic translation with commentary and notes by Anja Hartl.