The Threepenny Opera
Opera Warwick
Thu 21 - Sat 23 Jan 7.30pm
Theatre £9.50 (£7)
Composer: text by Bertolt Brecht, music by Kurt Weill
“It’s wickedness that keeps a man alive.”
The Threepenny Opera shines the floodlights on a shadowy culture of materialism and money-grabbing. Beggars are trained professionals, whores are glamour girls and the underworld is running the show. This cut-throat, cutting edge production by student company Opera Warwick places theatre side-by-side with new media to create a panorama of the greedy glitterati and grasping gutter folk in a dystopian twenty-first century.
Backstreet front man of the show is ‘Mack the Knife’, a thieving, bigamist, murdering, back-alley businessman who has seduced wide-eyed child of the on-screen generation, Polly Peachum into marriage.
But in this world, matrimony is a bargain and love is even cheaper. Macheath is finally brought under the spotlight, backed by a live jazz orchestra and silhouetted by the camera’s flash.
The Threepenny Opera
| Thu 21 Jan | Theatre | 7:45pm | ||
| Fri 22 Jan | Theatre | 7:45pm | ||
| Sat 23 Jan | Theatre | 7:45pm |
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Seating up to 550, audiences are assured of an excellent view of the stage and comfortable seating in this well-designed auditorium. The theatre stages the best national and international plays and performances, as well as contemporary and international dance, music and comedians.
