Book of the Month - Eva's Threepenny Theatre

In 1928, Canadian author Andrew Steinmetz’s great-aunt Eva performed in the first workshop production of Bertolt Brecht’s masterpiece The Threepenny Opera.. He has written a fictional tribute of her life and what it could have been like.

We relive Eva’s life beginning with her childhood in Germany, her schooling as an actress and her introduction to the philosophies of Brecht. We learn that Eva and her brother fled Germany to escape Nazi rule with Eva eventually living in Canada.

This is a remarkable but fantastic read. It is a fictionalized memoir. Steinmetz’s writing brings us right into their lives with bits and pieces of the play intersected.