{"product_id":"the-threepenny-opera-9781350205284","title":"The Threepenny Opera","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Bertolt Brecht\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Methuen Drama\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Methuen Drama\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Study Guides\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis new edition is published here in John Willett and Ralph Manhein's classic translation with commentary and notes by Anja Hartl.","brand":"Methuen Drama","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45087791677591,"sku":"9781350205284","price":1547.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781350205284.webp?v=1767898939","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-threepenny-opera-9781350205284","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}