THEATRE + COMEDY

The Rice University - Department of Visual and Dramatic Art presents Threepenny Opera by Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill, Directed by Leslie Swackhamer, Music Direction by Cristi Macelaru from the Rice University Shepherd School of Music.

Plot Summary: Public debt is ballooning, banks are going bust, a depression is right around the corner, and Mack the Knife is leaving a trail of broken hearts and cut throats in his wake. In this masterful musical satire, love, sex, murder, and theft all become tactics for survival in a society spinning out of control. The play challenges conventional notions of property as well as theater. It asks the question, "Who is the bigger criminal: he who robs a bank or he who founds one?"

Come one and all for a musical of murder, mayhem, and matrimony!

This production is being generously underwritten by the Rice University President's Faculty Initiative Fund, the Dean of the School of Humanities, the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts Jerome J. Segal Endowment and the Kurt Weill Foundation.