The Threepenny Opera gets a high-finance update, a mighty solo effort illuminates Finnegans Wake, but Beckett fails to spark at the Dublin theatre festivalThe Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill always strikes me as a problematic piece. It may have caused a stir in Berlin in 1928 when it was attacked by the communist press as insufficiently radical and by German nationalists for its lefti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PM on October 7, 2013