Observer Interviews: Theater and Opera Director Barrie Kosky Berliner Ensemble

This production resists period cliché, emphasizing the timeless grotesquery of charming monsters and systems that reward them.

A cast of performers poses in silhouette on a large open-frame metal structure arranged like stairs and platforms, with one brightly lit figure in a coat and hat standing apart from the others.

Kosky’s production of Bertolt Brecht’s scandalous ‘The Threepenny Opera’ is showing at St. Ann’s Warehouse for four nights only.

Observer Interviews: Theater and Opera Director Barrie Kosky Berliner Ensemble