The only problem in his plan is Jonathan Peachum, who not only hates Macheath, but will do anything to get his daughter back - after all, she's valuable goods, and he's invested a lot of time and money in her proper upbringing. And Polly is just the right kind of wife to have by his side for it. Mack is ready to climb out of the criminal slums and into criminal nobility.

And he's got great plans: instead of robbing banks and stabbing men, he now wants to found a bank and hire men. He's also chummy with his former live-in girlfriend Spelunken-Jenny, a whore he still visits on Thursdays. He's best friends with his old army buddy Jack 'Tiger' Brown, the London chief of police, whose daughter Lucy he's dating on the side. Mack has completely outsourced his crimes to his gang, and lives on his reputation. The play centers around the marriage of Polly Peachum (daughter of 'Beggar King' Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum) to notorious gangster and pimp Macheath (better known as Mack the Knife) who is getting old and wants respectability, titles and retirement. Die Dreigroschenoper is Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's Darker and Edgier adaptation of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera.

Threepenny opera music