{"product_id":"the-threepenny-opera","title":"The Threepenny Opera","description":"\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":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833466302669,"sku":"9781350205284","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_54b0ea07-3882-416a-8c17-94d657f5dd15.jpg?v=1790874771","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/the-threepenny-opera","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}