Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

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Sat, Jul 26, 2025, 20:00

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About the work Everything begins with the foundation of a city. Less the fruit of an ideal than the result of zero prospects in life, the city is conceived by the widowed Begbick, Fatty and Trinity Moses as a place that will make them money. Aiming to come out ahead financially for once, they plan to out-fox a system designed to suck them dry. To this end they name their city »Mahagonny, the City of Nets«. Yet the system defies... Read full text

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