Seattle Shakespeare Company presents Bertolt Brecht's 3 Penny Opera at Intiman theatre. A satire criticizing the society: the police chief in cahoot with the criminal, everyone can be bribed, beggars are actors. Plot: Macky the robber and womanizer is marring Polly, the daughter of the beggars' master. The parents want to get Macky hanged.
Although written in the 1930s, it feels modern: actors sometime talk to the audience, stage set is minimal. Seems to want the audience understand that it's an act. Lots of songs. More like a musical. Very well executed. Some of the actors have great voices. A couple of them sang in German at the beginning, and sounded very authentic. Too bad, that I don't speak German. So cannot really judge.
