Public debt is ballooning, banks are going bust, a depression is right around the corner, and Mack the Knife is leaving a trail of broken hearts and cut throats in his wake. In this masterful musical satire, love, sex, murder, and theft all become tactics for survival in a society spinning out of control.

The play challenges conventional notions of property as well as theater. It asks the central rhetorical question, “Who is the bigger criminal: he who robs a bank or he who founds one?”

Come one and all for a musical of murder, mayhem, and matrimony!

• Playwright or Author: Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill
• Directed By: Leslie Swackhamer
• Set Designer: Matthew Schlief
• Musical Director: Christi Macelaru
• Opening Date: Friday, November 13, 2009
• Closing Date: Friday, November 20, 2009
• Performance Location: Hamman Hall

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