{"product_id":"9781350205284","title":"The Threepenny Opera","description":"Author: Weill, Kurt; Brecht, Bertolt; Hartl, Anj\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781350205284\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 07 Apr 2022\u003cbr\u003ePages: 152 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of Bertolt Brecht's best-loved and most performed plays, \u003ci\u003eThe Threepenny Opera \u003c\/i\u003ewas first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin (now the home of the Berliner Ensemble). \u003cbr\u003eBased on the eighteenth-century \u003ci\u003eThe Beggar's Opera\u003c\/i\u003e by John Gay, the play is a satire on the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. \u003cbr\u003eWith Kurt Weill's music, which was one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce the jazz idiom into the theatre, it became a popular hit throughout the western world.\u003cbr\u003eThis new edition is published here in John Willett and Ralph Manhein's classic translation with commentary and notes by Anja Hartl.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46631842611358,"sku":"UBD-9781350205284","price":26.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781350205284.jpg?v=1774309999","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781350205284","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}