By John Gay
Discover the innocent but feisty heroine Polly Peachum, her wronged rival Lucy Lockit and Macheath, their irrepressible highwayman lover, as a tangled web of lies and deceit blissfully unravels. Deep in London’s underworld, this comedy of highwaymen, hangmen and harlots is an uncompromising exposure of moral and financial corruption.
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"A REMARKABLE EVENING" "...Jasper Britton and Phil Daniels are quality casting..."
"a wonderfully Hogarthian production"
The Guardian
The Times
“the energy and wit of it scorch the night air... inspired... John Gay’s lowlife brilliantly reborn..."
The Sunday Times
"The strength of Lucy Bailey's production is that it creates a Hogarthian portrait of money-grabbing 18th-Century London." "BRILLIANT DESIGNS"
The Daily Mail
"BEGGARS ARE A BAWDY BREATH OF FRESH AIR"
"...ingenious touches..."
"(Beverly) Rudd is terrific"
Sunday Telegraph
"...immaculate production... it boasts David Caves, a star of rare if not startling charisma."
Time Out
The Independent
Mail on Sunday
"A Hogarth cartoon teeming with life... splendidly acted and filled with loveable baddies and lovely tunes, the show has a lot to sing about"
CREATIVE TEAM
- Lucy Bailey – Director
- Siobhan Bracke – Casting Director
- Maxine Doyle – Movement Director
- William Dudley – Designer
- Oliver Fenwick – Lighting Designer
- Barbara Houseman – Voice & Text Consultant
- Majella Hurley – Dialect Coach
- Terry King – Fight Director
- Roddy Skeaping – Arranger
- Mike Walker – Sound Designer
- Guy Unsworth – Assistant Director
CAST
- Karen Anderson – Mrs Traipes' Assistant/Mrs Slammekin
- Jack Bannell – Ben Budge
- Jasper Britton – Mr Peachum
- David Caves – Captain Macheath
- Phil Daniels – Mr Lockit
- Keith Dunphy – Matt of the Mint
- Janet Fullerlove – Mrs Peachum
- Akiya Henry – Suky Tawdry
- Oliver Hoare – Filch
- Rob McNeill – Jemmy Twitcher
- Fernanda Prata – Molly Brazen
- Beverly Rudd – Lucy Lockit/Dolly Trull
- Vinicius Salles – Turnkey/Ned Clincher
- Frank Scantori – Turnkey/Mrs Traipes
- Lucie Skeaping – Jenny Diver
- Flora Spencer-Longhurst – Polly Peachum
