Released:
2011-11-15

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.

Director:
Andy Sommer

Runtime:
2h 18min

Genre:
Music, Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Jane Henschel
  as
  Leocadia Begbick
• 
  Donald Kaasch
  as
  Fatty "the Bookkeeper"
• 
  Willard White
  as
  Trinity Moses
• 
  Measha Brueggergosman
  as
  Jenny Smith
• 
  Michael König
  as
  Jim MacIntyre