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kennethbrangh · 1 year
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TIM CURRY as Macheath in The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht | Olivier Theatre (1986)
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segretecose · 1 year
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Bertolt Brecht, "What Keeps Mankind Alive?" from The Threepenny Opera (1928) (transl. Marc Blitzstein)
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wicked-felina · 6 months
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The way Bertolt Brecht gave us Mack the Knife and Pirate Jenny and Alabama Song, and the way the Threepenny Opera is such a classic socialist critique, and the way it's so bloody hard to find much mention of it or copies of adaptations. For fuck's sake, sausage.
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sixty-silver-wishes · 2 months
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I think threepenny opera has joined the list of things I like that would make you go, "yeah, that checks out"
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POV: threepenny opera has a Real™ fandom and you are scrolling AO3 in search of the ideal read for the evening
- at least a dozen different stories about Mac and Jackie's time in the army, ranging from heartfelt realizations of feelings to scathing critiques of British imperialism and toxic masculinity in the military; with varying amounts of smut involved
- Polly x Lucy one shot where the Eifersuchtsduett turns into a very angry make out session and then they run away together and leave Mac to rot in jail
- a collection of one shots about Mac and his gang meeting and doing crime and just generally Guys Being Dudes
- someone ripping off the plot of Die Schadenfreundinnen with Polly, Lucy and Jenny in the leading roles
- a novel length fanfic about how Celia and Jonathan met each other, got married, had Polly and built their criminal empire
- three different PWP's of the events of Mac and Polly's wedding night
- one very dedicated person writing all the content for an insanely outlandish rarepair of what are basically canon OCs at this point (i'm thinking something like Suky Tawdry x Filch)
- a story laying out Mac's tragic childhood and how he became Mack The Knife
- a beautiful, heartfelt Polly x Jenny story where Jenny comforts Polly after Mac's betrayal and they slowly fall in love, it ends with them running away and becoming pirates
- crack oneshot where Celia and Jonathan attend couple's therapy; it goes badly
- a bunch of different versions of Jenny and Mac's love story, titled with various lines from the Zuhälter-Ballade
- a single Jonathan x Mac fic that is irritatingly well written
- more Coffee Shop AUs than anyone bargained for
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April 2023 Starkid Dreamcast Poll
Thank you to everybody who voted in last month’s poll! This is how I make sure I bring you the dreamcasts you want to see. The dreamcasts for this month are Escape To Margaritaville, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Bad Cinderella! The four highest-voted shows in this poll will be the dreamcasts for May, so make sure to get your vote in!
Make sure to get your vote in!
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Opinions on the music of Kurt Weill?
I've been planning out how to answer this for a while, but basically my opinion is just... it's really good and I like it a lot. I was obsessed with The Threepenny Opera for years starting in college (I own both the original German recording and several more recent ones, including the semi-bowdlerized Blitzstein version from the 1950s with Bea Arthur as Lucy). I also love The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and The Seven Deadly Sins too. I really need to listen to more of his non-Brecht-related stuff, though. I have a longstanding hyperfixation on the Weimar Republic era and Weill's music makes for a fantastic soundtrack for that, and I feel like his works with Brecht, especially Threepenny, are really bracing in their political critiques in a way that modern listeners don't fully appreciate. Pirate Jenny wishing death on everyone around her gets me every time.
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bopinion · 7 months
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Aperçu of the Week:
"Food comes first and then morality."
(From Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera)
Bad News of the Week:
It's bad what's happening on the Canary Islands right now. What has already happened on Rhodes. And on Hawaii. From the endless expanses of Russia's Siberian tundra, we can only guess what's going on - because the information policy here is simply: there is no information. I mean wildfires. Which used to be an exception and now rarely make it into the headlines. Because they have become too commonplace. I'm particularly concerned about Canada, of course. Which is the hardest hit. And is closest to me.
This year, Canada is experiencing the most devastating wildfire season since records began. Nationwide, according to figures from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre, 5,700 fires are currently burning across more than 137,000 square kilometers. That's roughly equivalent to the entire land area of Greece - and that includes all the islands. In addition, of course, there are countless square kilometers that have already burned, where the flames can no longer find forage. As a reminder: that even in New York City yellow fire clouds from Canada made breathing difficult was already more than two months ago.
On U.S. television, only 5% of news stories about wildfires - which eventually rage in Washington, Oregon and California too - mention the relevance of climate change. Why? Official reason: because the audience doesn't want to hear it. Instead of acknowledging reality and taking active action, they'd rather bury their heads in the sand. Like the ostrich. Yes, that's that big ratite whose brain is smaller than one of its eyes. You got the point.
Good News of the Week:
It's been five years since an autistic student sat down in front of the Swedish Parliament on Friday with a sign reading "School Strike for Climate." Fridays for Future was born, and young Greta Thunberg even became Time's Person of the Year. Her goal was to create policies based on scientific knowledge to save the world from the consequences of climate change for her and future generations. In retrospect, she cannot be satisfied with the success of her efforts. For, in fact, precisely nothing worth mentioning has been done. The old white men in power still don't get it, business as usual.
So what can be done? On the one hand, there are the young (and old) radicals of Last Generation, Extinction Rebellion, etc., who - in the tradition of Greenpeace and Robin Wood - are trying to stir up the masses with civil disobedience. Obviously, this is not working either. "Free ride for free citizens" is still more important than saving the planet. Because the ignorant establishment doesn't want to move any more than the thoughtless people.
And then there are those who try to beat the system with its own weapons - in court. The German Supreme Court has already ruled that the political executive must do more for nature conservation and against climate change, because the future of the young depends on it. On this basis, a lawsuit is currently being filed against the Ministry of Transport, for example, because it is not even meeting its minimum statutory targets. Willfully not.
Last week, there were two other news items that take up precisely this principle of "beating with one's own weapons." First, Germany's second largest energy producer, RWE, is being sued by a Peruvian because the corporation is statistically responsible for 0.5% of global man-made climate change that harms him and his homeland. Let's see how this turns out. But in any case, it's a precedent that shows the fossil fuel lobby that it can't shirk responsibility like the nuclear lobby does.
And secondly, there was a highlight in the US state of Montana. 16 young people between the ages of 5 and 22 had sued for their right to a clean environment - as it says in their state's constitution. And were proven right. Observers believe the ruling could have a signal effect and maybe even stop future oil and gas projects. And Michael Gerrard, a Columbia University climate expert, sees a turning point as a matter of fact: "It's one of the most important decisions on climate change ever handed down by a court." Let's hope he's right.
Personal happy moment of the week:
We just spent three days in Dresden, the capital of Saxony, also known as "Elbe Florence". Actually, we were there for a concert of the Berlin dancehall musician Peter Fox, whose concert in Munich was already sold out. And not only did we have a great open air concert evening on the banks of the Elbe river, but we also discovered an architecturally highly interesting city (Zwinger, Semper Opera, Our Lady's Church, etc.), drank lots of Aperol Sprizz, visited an exhibition of up-and-coming artists, ate well and enjoyed the Canaletto city festival with local music greats. As I write this, I'm listening to Freddy Fischer & His Cosmic Rocktime Band playing some delightfully sultry German disco music. Nice.
I couldn't care less...
...about the US criminal justice system. Last week we learned that the indictment of Donald J. Trump in Georgia for attempting to influence the outcome of the 2020 presidential election is special (remember: he just lost). That's because, unlike the federal lawsuits elsewhere, here, as president, he could neither order the Justice Department to halt proceedings nor pardon himself. Since when, in a constitutional state, can the executive dictate the actions of the judiciary? Ever heard of separation of powers? And then pardon itself? This reminds me very much of the "Get out of jail" card from Monopoly. That such a thing is even discussed in the self-proclaimed "world's leading democracy" fills me with shudders....
As I write this...
...I am sitting in a train. Which came on time. And even goes where I want it to go. This is obviously not (anymore) a matter of course. Of the last five times I used long-distance trains, five times it went wrong. Because the connection I booked didn't exist. Because there were people in the track bed and the police closed the section of track. Because an overhead line was torn due to a thunderstorm. Because the connecting train unfortunately could not wait for the delayed predecessor train. Because there was a signal malfunction. I am a big train fan. For environmental reasons and because I find it the most comfortable of all transportation options. But sometimes it's hard to stay true to your principles and keep your good mood.
Post Scriptum
"La furia roja" has done it: the Spanish women's soccer team has won the FIFA World Cup. Seldom has it been so worthwhile to sit in front of the TV at noon, it was a great match. Felicidades chicas!
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thecringefailintherye · 9 months
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hello i am the owner of sols-dreigroschen-blog and i would absolutely not mind if you wrote any of the fanfics, in fact, i encourage it! the fandom is so small i would LOVE some content i haven't made myself :D knock yourself out, i can't wait
TRUST ME I WILL, genuinely disappointed there isnt nearly as much stuff on ao3 under the threepenny opera tag as i expected. and i really need to start writing for some more fandoms. ive also got this url now so i gotta do SOMETHING for this tiny fandom!!! may use your post as a prompt list (w credit obv) if im stuck for ideas. thank you so much!!!
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sheltiechicago · 10 months
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The invisible doors
This image, taken during a production of The Threepenny Opera, depicts an interaction between society and people with Down syndrome.
Photograph: Marika Lortkipanidze.
2022 Head On Festival Portrait Award
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brechtian · 10 months
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hi rosemary sorry u got an annoying anon for being 100 percent correct. what r ur thoughts on brechts threepenny opera?
It’s okay! Other ppl got anons much worse than mine, but I appreciate the sentiment. Threepenny opera is an extremely important play to theatre history & epic theatre, but, admittedly, it’s not actually my favorite brecht play—I’d choose mother courage and Caucasian chalk circle over it every time. I think the ending is interesting in the way it’s a direct commentary on the deus ex machina trope, but it still does feel a bit strange. It should also be noted that I haven’t seen a performance of it, only read it, so I haven’t gotten the full experience with music and visuals. I don’t know; it’s the brecht play I read most recently but I don’t remember much about it or what stood out to me 😭 sorry for not having more interesting opinions 😔 the band of thieves is fun, though!
Edit: ALSO the recording of brecht singing Mac the Knife makes me sob my eyes out 👍🏻
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voyaging-too · 1 year
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First, the original German version by Lotte Lenya.
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copperdoesart · 1 year
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Day 12 - The Threepenny Opera
“In that noonday heat there’ll be a hush round the harbor
As they ask which I want to die
And then
They’ll hear me quietly answer, ‘The lot!’”
yeah this show lives rent free in my head thanks to watching it like 15 times while working lighting crew
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thenineofus · 2 years
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Was anybody gonna tell me there is an adaptation of Threepenny Opera by the same director of The Apple with Raul Julia and Roger Daltrey or did I have to stumble upon it in terrible quality while looking for the songs on youtube?
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oury-boros · 2 years
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so this is the only full version i can find of my favorite incarnation of this song, 1994′s Ballad In Which Macheath Begs All Men’s Forgiveness. sry the audio is kind of difficult to understand and also sry if you dont know the context but i cant explain it right now dlkkfjsdlf
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okay so i've been thinking about Jonathan and Celia, and what their story is...
i imagine that they married because Celia was pregnant with Polly, and that she married "down" - her parents were maybe not bourgeois per se, but able to afford a comfortable life, maybe they owned a shop of some kind, where Celia and her siblings had to help out a lot, which is probably how she met Jonathan
i see him as a beggar himself in his younger years, orphaned and left to fend for himself, keeping afloat with begging, the occasional odd jobs, pickpocketing and the likes. i also think he used to be honestly pious as a child, maybe he was raised in a convent (that would explain the very biblical name as well) but he ran away there and became disillusioned with God, because what cruel God would allow such misery and this whole shtick, so he turned out very jaded towards religion
maybe he used to beg in the street in front of Celia's parents' shop, and she saw him outside on the street and took pity on him, snuck him something to eat or gave him leftovers in the evening, and he kept returning, and one night it was very cold and she snuck him inside and offered him a place to sleep in the back of the shop, and then one thing led to the other, you know...
maybe she kept seeing him now and then, but some time after, she noticed that she was pregnant and confided in her sister, who then told her parents, and they were furious with poor Celia, her father or brother probably found Jonathan and beat him up and told him to marry her or else, and Jonathan reluctantly agreed, mostly motivated by the hope of getting into more stable circumstances by marriage, but Celia's parents basically kicked her out after the wedding, as she was now her husband's responsibility and no longer theirs
so Celia had to leave the modest but comfortable life she knew, moving in with her husband in a crammy one-room appartment in a shady part of town, where they often went hungry and cold and what not, and finally had a daughter they named Polly, and Jonathan, who hadn't cared much about his wife or her pregnancy until now was suddenly obsessed with the baby and vowed to give her a better life, and enlisted Celia's knowledge to start his own business, collecting and selling rags or whatever, but it didn't go all that well until he noticed that there was much more money in racketeering and this was the beginning of Beggar's Friend
i imagine them having other children after Polly, but all of them being miscarriages or dying in the cradle, and this is one of the reasons why Celia started drinking, aside from never quite adapting to her new life, because Jonathan did not offer her any comfort in this situation, instead being quietly resentful because she wouldn't give him a son and raising Polly as if she were his son instead
i like to think Celia bought Polly the romance books, because it used to be her favourite way of escaping her dire reality as well, and also why she fell for Mackie's ploy so easily, because she wanted her daughter to marry better than she did, and because a fine gentleman inviting her to dance in a upscale hotel was what she had dreamed of so often, and she just wanted to indulge in this other life for a moment, however briefly
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