Stephen Jeffreys' The Convict's Opera reimagines the world's first ever musical The Beggar's Opera as a performance on board a creaking convict ship bound for Australia.
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To pass the time on their journey to Australia the convicts put on John Gay's musical satire The Beggar's Opera introducing us to treacherous highwayman MacHeath and sweet Polly Peachum as they juggle love and deceit in the dirty underbelly of eighteenth-century London. It's a world the convicts have left far behind and will probably never see again.Part historical romp part Brechtian jukebox musical Stephen Jeffreys's script is often times funny and beautifully written'
