13 Aug 2006

Amid beggars and a divided society, it's back to the cabaret years for Berlin

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2311861,00.html

From Roger Boyes in Berlin [Times Online, 14 August 2006]

THE Roaring Twenties, the raciest era in German history, staged a dramatic comeback at the weekend when the country’s elite turned out in force to applaud and boo a new production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera.