THREEPENNY OPERA by Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill, Directed by Leslie Swackhamer, Music Direction by Cristi Macelaru from the Rice University Shepherd School of Music. SUMMARY: Public debt is ballooning, banks are going bust, a depression is right around the corner, and Mack the Knife is leaving a trail of broken hearts and cut throats in his wake. In this masterful musical satire, love, sex, murder, and theft all become tactics for survival in a society spinning out of control. The play challenges conventional notions of property as well as theater. It asks the question, "Who is the bigger criminal: he who robs a bank or he who founds one?" Come one and all for a musical of murder, mayhem, and matrimony! For tickets call 713-348-PLAY. Ticket Prices are... General Admission: $10, Rice Alumni, Faculty & Staff: $8, Students: $5 A free reception will be held at 7:00 p.m. on opening night, with a pre-show talk by German Cousul General Roland Herrmann and Christian Emden, Associate Professor of German Studies. Performance begins at 8:00 p.m.