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The Threepenny Opera review

“Spectacular but sometimes dull”
ReviewsAug 21, 202310:07 by Tim BanoFestival Theatre, Edinburgh
Cast of The Threepenny Opera at Festival Theatre, Edinburgh. Photo: Jess Shurte
Cast of The Threepenny Opera at Festival Theatre, Edinburgh. Photo: Jess Shurte
Barrie Kosky’s take on Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s classic is musically astonishing but politically inert

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