The Threepenny Opera at the English National Theatre (Songs for the louche and low-life, 28 May) gave that theatre an unparalleled opportunity to intervene in our public life, as the authors, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, would have wished. "Robbing a bank's no crime compared to owning one," Brecht wrote in their next joint work, Happy End, a line he quickly transported back to the revived The Threepenny Opera. How …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:40PM on May 29, 2016