Žebrácká opera

Translation: Daria Ullrichová and Jan Tošovský
Director: Ivan Rajmont
Stage design: Martin Černý
Costumes: Michaela Hořejší
Music: Kurt Weil
Dramaturgy: Martin Urban
Translation of songs: Jan Tošovský

This classic work of the 20th century, based on Gay’s 18th-century classic The Beggar’s Opera, is a kind of eternal comedy of capitalism. All that was needed was to retain the logic of enterprise (the market) and turn on its head the ethical code that grew out of the Protestant relation to work, property and the world in general. A black comedy with songs thus originated, a comedy whose current impact no one in a real capitalist country need worry about. Especially in our country –unfortunately. Yet The Threepenny Opera is not just an eternal comedy of capitalism. It is also a brilliantly written play, bringing to theatre the necessity of extraordinary dramatic performance and the opportunity to find new potentialities and contents in the text, as well as in the manner of its interpretation. The play will be staged with Kurt Weill’s original and world-famous music.

 Appearing:

Macheath: Vojtěch Dyk
Peachum: Jan Novotný
Mrs Peachum: Eva Salzmannová
Polly: Antonie Talacková
Brown: Alexej Pyško
Lucy: Eva Vrbková
Jenny: Sabina Králová
Pastor Kimball: Karel Pospíšil / Filip Rajmont
Smith: Milan Stehlík
Filch: Filip Rajmont
Mathias: Jan Bidlas
Policeman: Boris Hybner
Bitch: Anna Schmidtmajerová, Alena Bazalová, Anita Krausová, Týna Průchová, Kristýna Kudrnáčová, Marcela Holubcová, Barbora Vyskočilová

Macheath’s crew: Jiří N. Jelínek, David Steigerwald, Vlastimil Přáda, Michal Dudek, Milan Tomeš