The threepenny opera

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bertolt brecht - the threepenny opera 1928

To infuse new life into an old, familiar work, you start by going backward, searching inside the work for the initial impulses that created it. Contrariwise, to guarantee that it stays dead and that its familiarity breeds only contempt, you start from conventional expectations of its end result—or, even more unhelpfully, from conventional recollections of […]

The Brecht-Gardine (small curtain), from an edition of The Threepenny Opera by Brecht, Cologne (1929-1930). Photographic reproduction by an unknown author. Cologne, Institut für Theaterwissen-schaft der Universität. V. Morpurgo, ibidem. To notice as the half-transparency of the Brecht curtain allows to glimpse the action that develops behind it, and also as the orchestra play the music by Kurt Weil in an position superincumbent the stage, beyond the curtain, but in full view above the same.

Of course there is swearing in the National’s production of The Threepenny Opera. The play is an attack on bourgeois values