Three Penny Opera

Segregated inside an old theatre that no one takes notice of anymore, live the actors/characters of this modern Opera da 3 $oldi.
Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum is their director/executioner, who, blinded by the lust for success and fame, but short of ideas, exploits the unfortunate while trying to find moral refuge in the greatest drama ever written: the Bible.

The daily lives of these young people thus become one with Brechtian text, through which the actors live and stage on two parallel tracks, that "critique of bourgeois society" of which they themselves are victims and protagonists.
Eight beds are the cornerstone of the entire scenography. Beds understood as places of birth, death, lust, sin, illness, betrayal, idleness, beds under which to hide one's money, beds as stages for our most unspeakable vices, and, from a purely oneiric perspective, "places of dreams.".
But also beds used by the actors themselves in everyday life, forced, as they are, to live in direct symbiosis with the theatre and its rules.
“Beds in which the spectator himself would like to be, when in the theater, he sees something that makes him yawn!” curses the director.

The one who breaks the magical and morbid mechanism of this almost perfect theatrical machine is the diabolical Macheath, known as Mackie Messer, who, like a modern-day Candlewick, imposes himself on the company as if he were a hero; the emblem and reincarnation of all the most hidden and unexpressed passions of man.
This is why Mackie, in Peachum's eyes, will appear as a subversive, a foolish libertine, a vulgar hedonist, a cancer to be prevented before it's too late, someone who rows against...
The truth, however, is very different, and the actors/characters will eventually understand this. But it will be too late. A new day will be followed by a new night, a new night by a new day. Nothing new will happen under the sun. The show must go on; and when the curtain falls again, a chorus, in the night, will ask you never to judge that which so closely resembles you.

OTE OZZANO THEATRE ENSEMBLE
Le Saracinesche Company
From Brecht — Weill

3-penny work

In the adaptation by Emiliano Minoccheri

PREMIERE
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Reruns 10-11-12 14-15-16 July
SHOWS START at 9:00 PM
C/o former Area Hawort Castelli, via Olmatello 21 Ozzano dell'Emilia (Bologna)
Information and reservations: [email protected]
Tel. 320-6848804