{"product_id":"the-threepenny-opera","title":"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). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54022214058328,"sku":null,"price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781350205284_8909efad-79c3-4602-8b5f-7f5ea096bd41.jpg?v=1776940235","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-threepenny-opera","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}