(The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny)

Content: A hard-hitting new production of Kurt Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by the Catalan collective La Fura dels Baus at the Teatro Real de Madrid. Composed in the 1930s by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, this is a mordant satire on capitalism and the inexorable industrialisation of a society in which the ultimate crime is not having money. In twenty scenes the authors tell the story of a city lost in the middle of a desert and run by three thugs; in Mahagonny food, sex, gambling and violence rule supreme.

Countries:

Spain

Genres:

Music,

Drama

Runtime:

138 minutes

Year:

2011

Directors:

Andy Sommer

Production companies:

Bel Air Classiques,

Teatro Real de Madrid

Actors:

Leocadia Begbick

Fatty "the Bookkeeper"

Trinity Moses

Jenny Smith

Jim MacIntyre

Crews:

Songs

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Conductor

Director

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