Theatre Group Productions

Tuesday 25th, Wednesday 26th, Thursday 27th Feb. @ 7.30pm

THE THREEPENNY OPERA

Tickets £6, £4 conc.

 

Lancaster University Theatre Group introduces you to a whole new experience in the world of musicals! Produced and directed by the students themselves, come and enjoy this innovative production of Brechtian drama, a thousand miles form your typical Broadway musical!

 

Based on The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay, and set against the background of Victorian Soho, The Threepenny Opera tells the story of Mac the Knife, the most renowned bandit in London. When Mac marries Polly – daughter of Mr J. J. Peachum, business manager to the beggars of London – Polly’s parents begin a grand effort to see Mac on the gallows.

 

Combining a darkly comic satire of bourgeois society with the astonishing jazz-influenced music of Kurt Weill, The Threepenny Opera has been among Brecht’s most popular works ever since its premier in 1928.

 

What will happen when Mac’s hour of execution arrives? Can there be a happy ending for Mac and Polly? All will be revealed in this witty portrayal of the exploitation of human misery.

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