The Threepenny Opera Av Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill

<p>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.</p>