Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it
July —
August
2007
Company
Director
Robert Forknall
Design
Clare Southern
Music
Tom Barnes
Assistant Director
Katie Pesskin
Company Stage Manager
Guy Benedict Jones
Assistant Stage Manager
Leonie Hamilton
Cast
Beggar/Ben Budge
Michael Wagg
Player/Matt of the Mint
Andy Crabb
Peachum
Steven Wickham
Polly Peachum
Katherine Heath
Macheath
Gary Tushaw
Mrs Peachum
Sarah Finigan
Lockit
Alan Ruscoe
Lucy Lockit
Rebecca McKinniss
Filch
Charlie Tighe
Jenny Diver
Hannah Boyde
Peachum, a purveyor of stolen goods, and his rapacious wife, are horrified to find that their only child, Polly, has married Captain Macheath, the famous highwayman. Peachum cannot bear the thought that Macheath should get control of Polly’s money and become the heir to his own fortune, so he plots to have Macheath captured and hanged.
In the end Macheath hangs and as the public object to the tragic turn of events. Macheath’s hanging is “reversed,” and the company of beggars improvise a joyful and shambolic happy ending.