The Convict's Opera

The Convict's Opera

by StephenJeffreys (Author)

Synopsis

On board a convict ship to Australia, the prisoners stage their own version of John Gay's 18th-century romp-with-songs, "The Beggar's Opera", finding it easy to identify with the villainous but charming hero, Macheath, whose repeated brushes with the law serve only to interrupt his compulsive womanizing.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 96
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Published: 03 Oct 2008

ISBN 10: 1848420153
ISBN 13: 9781848420151

Author Bio
Stephen Jeffreys won the Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright Award in 1989 for Valued Friends . Since then his plays have included The Clink (1999), The Libertine (1994), which was first directed by Max Stafford-Clark and then filmed with Johnny Depp, and Lost Land (2005), which was premiered by John Malkovich's Steppenwolf company in Chicago. Stephen lives in Hornsey, North London.