In 'The Threepenny Opera' Bertolt Brecht attempts to denounce prostitution, misery and abuse of power in the midst of the economic crisis: The work premiered in Berlin in 1928, a time (the end of the 1920s) convulsive. Brecht's text is a fierce criticism against capitalism. For it, The author brings to stage an updated revision of the musical parody 'The Beggars' Opera', from the Englishman John Gay, and shows the world the crudest version of this economic system, which Brecht considers to function as a large machinery of organized crime.
'The Threepenny Opera' is a play in a prologue and three acts, with music by Kurt Weill and a German libretto by Bertolt Brecht.
