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The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

La Fura dels Baus, a Catalan collective, has staged a new production of Kurt Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Teatro Real de Madrid. Weill and Brecht wrote this in the 1930s as a scathing critique of capitalism and its inevitable industrialization in a society where not having money constitutes the ultimate criminal.. Three thugs control Mahagonny, a city in the middle of the desert, where food, sex, gambling, and violence reign supreme.

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