The Threepenny Opera

The epoch-making work for the theater of the 20th century returns to the stage of the National Theater in a daring new production with a new translation of the text by Bertold Brecht and songs by Kurt Weill. London is preparing for the coronation - unreliable elements such as thieves or priestesses of selling love are removed from the streets, and the police make deals right and left so that no one, God forbid, comes forward. Mr. and Mrs. Pycham, the owners of the Poor's Friend office, expect business to pick up when one night their daughter does not come home. This can mean only one thing - Macky-Knife is in town again. Laurence Olivier Award winner Rory Kinnear (Hamlet, Othello) plays the famous gangster McHeath, while Rosalie Craig (As You Like It) stars as Paula Peach. This production, ready to boast of language and scenes intended only for an adult audience, owes its unpredictable, anarchic spirit to playwright Simon Stevens ("The Mysterious Nighttime Murder of a Dog"), who wrote a new English version of the famous play, and director Rufus Norris ("Every Man", "London Road").