The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (2011)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 2011-11-15
Runtime: 138 minutes
Director: Andy Sommer
Top Cast
- Jane Henschel as Leocadia Begbick
- Donald Kaasch as Fatty "the Bookkeeper"
- Willard White as Trinity Moses
- Measha Brueggergosman as Jenny Smith
- Michael König as Jim MacIntyre
- John Easterlin as Jack O'Brien / Tobby Higgins
- Otto Katzameier as Bank-Account Bill
- Steven Humes as Alaska-Wolf Joe
Soundtrack
Original Music Composer(s): N/A
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