The Three Penny Opera

Friday, December 16th at 7:00 p.m. in the Estep: the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain's production of "The Threepenny Opera" by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, in collaboration with Elisabeth Hauptmann in a new adaptation by Simon Stephens. First performed in Berlin in 1928, when Germany was on the cusp of a period of political extremity, Brecht's comic opera shines a deliberately unattractive light on a narcissistic, morally despicable strongman and the society that empowers him. Rated “R” due to “filthy language and immoral behavior." Runtime: 3 hours (including a 20-minute interval--we'll serve ice cream. Olivier-Award winner Rory Kinnear is Mack the Knife in a new version of this landmark twentieth-century musical, captured-live on of the stage of the National Theatre in London.