The Threepenny Opera

Originally Based on John Gay’s 18th century ballad opera The Beggar’s Opera, The Threepenny Opera has long excited audiences with its unfiltered, confrontational narrative as well as its social commentary. Written in 1928, Brecht's cutting satirical critique of capitalism takes us through Victorian London's Soho where we are plunged into the seedy underbelly of the Savoy Hotel, Grape Lane Brothel, and Peachum's Emporium for Beggars. Timely and prophetic, Brecht deftly blurs the lines between a hypocritical bourgeois society, with its wealthy, corrupt power brokers, and the criminal underworld of cut-throats, thieves and whores.