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Theatre Group Productions |
Tuesday 25th, Wednesday 26th, Thursday 27th Feb. @ 7.30pm |
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THE THREEPENNY OPERA |
Tickets £6, £4 conc. |
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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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