The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
2011
138 minutes
Overview
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.
Top Cast
Jane Henschel
Leocadia Begbick
Donald Kaasch
Fatty "the Bookkeeper"
Willard White
Trinity Moses
Measha Brueggergosman
Jenny Smith
Michael König
Jim MacIntyre
John Easterlin
Jack O'Brien / Tobby Higgins
Otto Katzameier
Bank-Account Bill
Steven Humes
Alaska-Wolf Joe