A town is founded in the middle of the desert. In Mahagonny, everything is allowed as long as you can pay—“but something is missing!” To escape the emptiness, the characters eat and drink themselves to death, fuck and punch themselves in the grave. Only in Jim Mahoney does the idea of a more humane existence quietly niggle. Between pub songs and avant-garde sounds, quotes from classical music and dance music, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill built a capitalist paradise in 1930 that is destroyed by its own promises. Benedikt von Peter's spectacular spatial production celebrates the 50th anniversary of Theater Basel and invites you to wander around the supposed paradise town of Mahagonny.
This opera in three acts is a spatial theater without borders that will be performed in German, with English and German surtitles.
Tickets are CHF 30-110 for adults and CHF 20 for youths up to age 16 and students up to age 30.

Website
theater-basel.ch/en/aufstiegundfallderstadtmahagonny

Where
Theater Basel
Theaterstrasse 7
4051 Basel

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