
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
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.
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
November 15, 2011
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Cast (8)

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
Crew (9)
Directing
Writing
Production

François Duplat
Producer
Sound

Kurt Weill
Songs

Pablo Heras-Casado
Conductor