The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (2011)

A hardhitting new production of Kurt Weills Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by the Catalan collective La Fura dels Baus at the Teatro Real de Madrid Composed in the 1930s by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht this is a mordant satire on capitalism and the inexorable industrialisation of a society in which the ultimate crime is not having money In twenty scenes the authors tell the story of a city lost in the middle of a desert and run by three thugs in Mahagonny food sex gambling and violence rule supreme