Three Penny Opera

Title in German - Die Dreigroschenoper

Kurt Weil (music)
Bertolt Brecht

Actors in Three Penny Opera
Kurt Gerron

• Berlin trained actor; Jewish; sent to Terezin - concentration camp for propaganda purposes; directed many plays in the camp

Lotte Lenya

• Bertolt Brecht's wife; inspiration for many female characters

Adapted from John Gay's The Beggar's Opera