Threepenny Opera

It is a representative dramatic work of Brecht in his early time. The story takes place in London in the 1920s. Macheath was the leader of the robbers. Businessman Peachum controlled the fate of all the beggars in the city. Macheath married Pitchham's daughter Polly in secret. Peachum took his daughter as his capital and felt he lost a lot, so that he reported Macheath to the government. Although ...