The Threepenny Opera
- Sat, Dec 5 · 18:00
- Teatre Principal · Sala Gran
With a grotesque staging, cynical characters and music that strips away any easy sentiment, this version of the famous musical drops us into a world where everyone plays dirty to win — and black humour is the only shield against despair. In interwar London, where misery and corruption share the street with luxury and vice, Macheath — Mack the Knife (Coque Malla), a ruthless, magnetic pimp and crook — rules with an iron fist. His empire runs on brothels, bribes and crimes dressed up as business. Meanwhile Jonathan Peachum (Omar Calicchio), owner of a decaying slaughterhouse, has built a fortune by exploiting beggars, turning poverty into a calculated, profitable company. When Polly (Carmen Barrantes), Peachum’s sharp-witted daughter, secretly marries Mack, a war of interests explodes: Peachum will not let his daughter join a criminal he cannot control, and Mack will not give up power. As Peachum conspires with corrupt authorities to send Mack to the gallows, Polly proves she is more than a wife — a strategist playing on the same board as the men around her. The city itself is a slaughterhouse, where people are cannon fodder and survival means who exploits whom better. Amid betrayal…