Malthouse Theatre

LIMITED AVAILABILITY

Tickets for this season are extremely limited. However, more tickets may become available closer to each performance.

MALTHOUSE THEATRE & VICTORIAN OPERA PRESENT

BERTOLT BRECHT & KURT WEILL’S

THE THREEPENNY OPERA

TEXT RAIMONDO CORTESE
LYRICS JEREMY SAMS
DIRECTOR MICHAEL KANTOR
CONDUCTOR RICHARD GILL
SET DESIGNER PETER CORRIGAN
COSTUME DESIGNER ANNA CORDINGLEY
LIGHTING DESIGNER PAUL JACKSON
CHOREOGRAPHER KATE DENBOROUGH
BESEN FAMILY ARTIST PROGRAM (DIRECTION) CAMERON MENZIES
BESEN FAMILY ARTIST PROGRAM (WARDROBE) CHLOE GREAVES

WITH
CASEY BENNETTO, PAUL CAPSIS, JUDI CONNELLI, JOLYON JAMES, MELISSA LANGTON, AMY LEHPAMER, ANNA O’BYRNE, EDDIE PERFECT, DIMITY SHEPHERD, GRANT SMITH, JOHN XINTAVELONIS

MERLYN THEATRE
MAY 28 - JUNE 19

Running Time: 2hr 40 (inc interval)

“THERE WAS NO ALTERNATIVE
BUT TO SING.”

KURT WEILL

Ever since an astonished first night audience leapt to their feet in Weimar Berlin, Brecht and Weill’s masterpiece,
The Threepenny Opera has reigned as one of the most outrageous stabs at modern life ever committed to the stage. Straddling the genres of musical comedy, bawdy farce, sophisticated operetta and urgent political satire, it shoves aside the pretentions of modern world civility to revel in all that is corrupt and squirming beneath.

The most notorious anti-hero to storm a stage, Mac is the original city crim who’s never met a law, a woman or a cop he couldn’t break - but when he challenges the supremacy of the Beggar King and his empire of manufactured woes, the fallout threatens to tear the town apart.

Director, Michael Kantor and text adaptor, Raimondo Cortese discover in The Threepenny Opera a world uncannily true to our own – where moralities are gambled by the powerful, and corruption is code for survival among the downtrodden. At its savage, thrillingly contradictory heart, is Kurt Weill’s raw, jazzy and intensely beautiful music, including the chilling classic, Mack the Knife.

In this major collaboration with Victorian Opera, Richard Gill conducts a sizzling ensemble of 19 thieves, whores and tramps drawn from the hot and dangerous firmaments of opera, music theatre, cabaret, and every dive in between, led by Judi Connelli (Gypsy, The Pack of Women), Grant Smith (Sleeping Beauty), Paul Capsis (Boulevard Delirium), Eddie Perfect (Shane Warne: The Musical), Dimity Shepherd (Through the Looking Glass) and Casey Bennetto (Keating!).

The Threepenny Opera is more than a production – it is an event. (Don’t book late!)

GERMAN TRANSLATION BY ELISABETH HAUPTMANN.
USED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH EUROPEAN AMERICAN MUSIC CORPORATION, AGENT FOR THE KURT WEILL FOUNDATION FOR MUSIC, INC., AND

PHOTOS GARTH ORIANDER