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Collected Plays Vol 2: The Threepenny Opera (Methuen Modern Plays) (Paperback)

by Bertolt Brecht (Author), John Willett (Editor), Ralph Manheim (Editor), R. Manheim (Translator), J. Willett (Translator) "Beggars are begging, thieves thieving, whores whoring ..." (more)

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Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: Methuen Drama; Reprint edition (11 Jan 1979)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0413390306
ISBN-13: 978-0413390301
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 1 cm

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Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin (now the home of the Berliner Ensemble), is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. With Kurt Weill's unforgettable music - one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce jazz to the theatre, it became a popular hit throughout the western world."One of the greatest poets and dramatists of our century" (Observer)

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Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose plays, work with the Berliner Ensemble and writing have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera and, while exiled from Germany and living in the USA, such masterpieces as The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Probably the best translation to capture Brecht's intentions, 18 Mar 1998

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Of all the translations on the market, this one is the best -- most are watered-down, tepid versions. Manheim & Willet's was used in the late 1970's revival of the piece by the New York Shakespeare Festival, which starred the late Raul Julia and Ellen Greene (of "Little Shop of Horrors" fame, in the role originally intended for Lotte Lenya).

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