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Soup Can Theatre is kicking off the month of Halloween with our favourite musical and the inspiration for our Toronto Fringe hits Love is a Poverty You Can Sell I and II: an in-concert version of THE THREEPENNY OPERA - a dark play with music full of crime, greed, lust, dark humour, and biting social commentary that chronicles the exploits of antiheroic criminal Macheath (aka ‘Mack the Knife’) against the backdrop of 19th century London's seedy underworld. With a haunting score and message, THE THREEPENNY OPERA is Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's most famous collaboration from the Weimar Era.
To put a spin on things, there will be 3 PERFORMANCES in ONE DAY! Sunday October 2nd at 4pm, 6:30pm, and 9pm at the historic Monarch Tavern in the heart of Little Italy. In addition, just 3 PERFORMERS will be playing ALL the roles: Scott Garland (2016 Dora Award Nominee for Three Men in a Boat), Christian Jeffries (from our Love is a Poverty You Can Sell cabarets), and Sarah Thorpe (Soup Can co-founder, MyTheatre's 2015 Fan Favourite Award winner for Heretic), under the baton of our musical director Pratik Gandhi (music director of the Rouge River Winds and resident conductor at Toy Piano Composers), who helmed the music on our productions of Circle Jerk, A Hand of Bridge, Marat/Sade, and Love is a Poverty You Can Sell I and II.
Performance Details:
Where: The Monarch Tavern, 12 Clinton Street, Toronto.
When: Sunday, October 2nd, 2016. 4pm, 6:30pm, and 9pm.
Tickets:
Tickets are $13 and are available in person at the venue (cash only) or in advance: https://soupcantheatre.yapsody.com/event/index/48283/THE_THREEPENNY_OPERA:_In_Concert
Creative and Production Team:
Producer/Co-Director – Sarah Thorpe
Musical Director/Co-Director – Pratik Gandhi
Event Coordinator – Kathleen Hemsworth
Pianist – Suzan Kim
Graphic Designer – Alyksandra Ackerman
About Soup Can Theatre: Soup Can Theatre is a Toronto-based company that strives to explore and comment on contemporary issues and societal challenges, and to offer audiences a theatrical experience that is both entertaining and enriching. Previous productions include Heretic, Love is a Poverty You Can Sell, Marat/Sade, Antigone, an opera/theatre double bill presentation of A Hand of Bridge & No Exit, Love is a Poverty You Can Sell 2: Kisses for a Pfennig, and Circle Jerk - a collaborative multi-work and multi-disciplinary production inspired by lines of original dialogue submitted by the public. More information at SoupCanTheatre.com.
About THE THREEPENNY OPERA: a "play with music" offering a socialist critique of the capitalist world by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from dramatist Elisabeth Hauptmann's translation of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, The Beggar's Opera, with music by Kurt Weill. It premiered in 1928 in Berlin, had its unsuccessful North American debut on Broadway in 1933, then had a far more successful run off-Broadway from 1954-1961 with a new English translation by Marc Blitzstein. Lotte Lenya won a Tony Award in 1956 for her performance as Jenny, the role she originated in Berlin. More information at ThreepennyOpera.org.
Soup Can Theatre:
2016-09-15
Toronto: Soup Can Theatre presents "The Threepenny Opera" three times on October 2