{"product_id":"the-threepenny-opera-by-bertolt-brecht-9781350205284","title":"The Threepenny Opera","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of Bertolt Brecht's best-loved and most performed plays, \u003ci\u003eThe Threepenny Opera\u003c\/i\u003e was first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin (now the home of the Berliner Ensemble).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition is published here in John Willett and Ralph Manhein's classic translation with commentary and notes by Anja Hartl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47428332028140,"sku":"9781350205284","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350205284.jpg?v=1774477606","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/the-threepenny-opera-by-bertolt-brecht-9781350205284","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}