The Threepenny Opera

Name: The Threepenny Opera
Start: 2024-10-03T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-03T22:00:00-04:00
Location: 3359 Mississauga Road,Mississauga,L5L 1C6,CA

Schedule

Thu Oct 03 2024 at 07:30 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

3359 Mississauga Road,Mississauga,L5L 1C6,CA | Mississauga, ON

Translation by Simon Stephens |
Director: Anita La Selva |
October 3 – 12, Erindale Studio Theatre
Not an opera nor exactly a piece of musical theatre, but a cutting, cynical, and often grimly funny satire – with lots of songs, including such cabaret classics as “Mac the Knife” and “Pirate Jenny.” Brecht, with a lot of help from Elisabeth Hauptmann, wrote the script in a few frantic weeks in 1928 Berlin, a city that was simultaneously reinventing modern gender relations and witnessing the excesses of turbocapitalism, and the play, with its raw and edgy score by Weill, preserves that helter-skelter atmosphere. A wild, merciless, utterly captivating ride!