The Convict's Opera

Stephen Jeffreys(Nick Hern Books)

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BritishAustralian and New Zealand

Medium Cast (10)Female (4)Male (6)

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Synopsis

A funny, sexy, scurrilous adaptation of the play Bertolt Brecht made into The Threepenny Opera.

On board a convict ship to Australia, the prisoners stage their own version of John Gay's eighteenth-century romp-with-song, The Beggar's Opera, finding it easy to identify with the villainous but charming hero, Macheath.

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