Production still for "The Threepenny Opera". L-R: Casey Bennetto as Tiger Brown, Eddie Perfect as MacHeath. Photographer: Jeff Busby
The Threepenny Opera (2010)
By Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill
28 May 2010 – 19 June 2010 Merlyn Theatre
Malthouse Theatre, Victorian Opera,
Classic Theatre Opera Co-Production
The most notorious anti-hero to storm a stage, Mac (The Knife) is the original city crim who's never met a law, a woman or a cop he couldn't break - but when he challenges the supremacy of the Beggar King and his empire of manufactured woes, the fallout threatens to tear the town apart.
Director, Michael Kantor and text adaptor, Raimondo Cortese discover in The Threepenny Opera a world uncannily true to our own - where moralities are gambled by the powerful, and corruption is code for survival among the downtrodden.
Cast
Creatives
Playwright
Composer
Set Designer
Lighting Designer
Adaptor
Choreographer
Conductor, Musician
Director
Musician
Musician
Lyricist
Mechanist
Sound Operator/Engineer, Sound Designer
Assistant Director
Costume Designer
Musician
Assistant Conductor
Sound Designer
Musician
Stage Manager
Costume Assistant
Assistant Conductor, Repetiteur, Musician
Mechanist
Assistant Stage Manager
Musician
Musician
Mechanist
Musician
Assistant Stage Manager
Musician
Besen Family Artist
Besen Family Artist
Acknowledgements
German translation by Elisabeth Hauptman. Used by arrangement with European American Music Corporation, agent for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc.., and agent for the Estate of Stefan Brecht.