The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

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The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (2011)

Directed by Andy Sommer

Music, Drama · 2h 18m

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.

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Cast

Jane Henschel Leocadia Begbick
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Donald Kaasch Fatty "the Bookkeeper" Willard White Trinity Moses
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Measha Brueggergosman Jenny Smith Michael König Jim MacIntyre John Easterlin Jack O'Brien / Tobby Higgins
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Otto Katzameier Bank-Account Bill
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Steven Humes Alaska-Wolf Joe

Crew

Director
Andy Sommer
Writer
Bertolt Brecht
Producer
François Duplat

Details

Release date
2011-11-15
Runtime
2h 18m
Genres
Music, Drama
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
Spain
Production
Bel Air Classiques, Teatro Real de Madrid