"The beggars beg, the thieves steal, the whores whore. And the shark has teeth, and it wears them on its face..." Brecht's sharp-tongued travesty, in which the beggars and crooks act more bourgeois than good society, seems to have lost a few of its sharp teeth today, so natural has Brecht's critique of capitalism become to us. Here, crime is subject to the ice-cold laws of the market and love has a precisely calculated price. And so greed and profiteering are the determining principles that neither an old male friendship nor a tender romance can withstand. Doesn't that still sound familiar?

The Threepenny Opera

Staatstheater Braunschweig

Basil is an artist and Dorian Gray is his model. Lord Henry, the third in the studio, is a friend of the painter and of decadence. While one paints him, the other corrupts Dorian's pure soul with immoral, cynical speeches. In the same (unnoticed) magical moment in which a special portrait is created, soul and purity separate. One moves into the picture, the other remains with the model.

Dorian G.

Can the past be denied and memories erased? After a mass shooting at an international school, pupils, parents and teachers are left horrified and traumatised. The teenage perpetrator is committed to a psychiatric ward. Ten years later, Stela is celebrating her wedding to Tuomas, who she met in her home country of Romania, together with his parents and a priest. She is so happy that she doesn’t ask why there are so few guests. But the waitress hints that there is something Stela doesn’t know – that her groom has another brother.

Simon Jensen

Events

Upcoming events

25 - 26 Jan, 2025

Dorian G. · Staatstheater Braunschweig

Mar 15 - Apr 11, 2025

Innocence · Semperoper Dresden

Past events

Mar 24, 2024

The Threepenny Opera · Staatstheater Braunschweig

Future and recently performed repertoire

Spelunkenjenny in The Threepenny Opera by Weill

Staatstheater Braunschweig

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