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A funny, sexy, scurrilous adaptation of the play Bertolt Brecht made into The Threepenny Opera. On board a convict ship to Australia, the prisoners stage their own version of John Gay's eighteenth-century romp-with-song, The Beggar's Opera, finding it easy to identify with the villainous but charming hero, Macheath.
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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.
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"Part historical romp, part Brechtian jukebox musical, Stephen Jeffreys's script is often times funny and beautifully written." —Sun-Herald, Australia
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- PublisherNick Hern Books
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1848420153
- ISBN 13 9781848420151
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages96
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