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.

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