https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny2 Theatrical Context: What was going on in the theatre at this time? What kind of theatre was happening before? How did the audience react to this play? en-us 2017-01-04 12:06:31 UTC 2023-03-06 01:36:38 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny2/wish/147667991 Brecht joined the communist Independent Social Democratic party in 1919. After World War I, Brecht was very disappointed by how the war affected the country’s state of civilization, and he developed a violent attitude toward the bourgeois, or middle class, which was known as the new ruling class.]]> 2017-01-17 20:00:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny2/wish/147667991 https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny2/wish/147680181  Brecht adapted The Threepenny Opera from John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera after that play underwent a successful 1920 revival at London’s Lyric Theater. ]]> 2017-01-17 20:48:50 UTC https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny2/wish/147680181 https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny2/wish/147682381 The spring following the debut of The Threepenny Opera, Germany’s majority party, the Social Democratic Party, prohibited annual May Day worker’s demonstrations in Berlin. When the communist party defied the ban and demonstrated, more than thirty-two workers were killed. ]]> 2017-01-17 20:57:14 UTC https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny2/wish/147682381 https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny2/wish/147684085  The late 1920s were part of a more stable period in the Weimar Republic, a period where the hyperinflation was reigned in and foreign (particularly American) capital flowed into the country. For the theater, this meant a significant re-working of the classics, prominent among which stood Brecht's Edward II and Erich Engel's Coriolanus in early 1925. Later in that year the production of Carl Zuckmayer's Der froehliche Weinberg revolutionized theater by introducing down-to-earth comedy to the stage. ]]> 2017-01-17 21:05:33 UTC https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny2/wish/147684085 https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny2/wish/147685187 2017-01-17 21:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny2/wish/147685187 https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny2/wish/147703244 2017-01-17 23:23:59 UTC https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny2/wish/147703244 https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny2/wish/147748282 The Threepenny Opera is an early example of Brecht’s employment of “epic theater,” a concept first brought to the public’s attention by his former employer, Erwin Piscator. Brecht’s version of epic theater was meant to educate rather than to entertain, and it employed specific stage devices such as alienation to distance the audience and make them think about the action going on in the play rather than focusing on the plays reality.]]> 2017-01-18 08:49:36 UTC https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny2/wish/147748282 https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny2/wish/147748765 The Threepenny Opera leaves the audience with neither morals nor happy endings, individuals are forced to think about the issues for themselves. Perhaps the biggest irony of The Threepenny Opera is that the combination of Brecht’s comedic timing and Weill’s catchy ballads yielded Brecht’s greatest commercial success]]> 2017-01-18 08:52:58 UTC https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny2/wish/147748765