Last seen at the National Theatre over 10 years ago, Brecht and Weill's The Threepenny Opera is back in a new adaptation by Simon Stephens. But looking at Rufus Norris's epic-theatre-lite production " all exposed stage-mechanics and makeshift sets " and listening to Stephens's brutal but non-committal text, you'd swear it had never been away. There's no aggressive update, no attempt to reinvent or make relevant, and …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:27AM on May 27, 2016