Tag: The Beggar’s Opera

John Gay’s original 18th century performance of The Beggar’s Opera is made wilder and more raucous to fit with 21st century changed sensibilities in this new stage production  from Paris’s Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord directed by...

John Gay’s 18th-century opera brought forward into the modern daySwarming with highwaymen, thieves, jailors, pimps and prostitutes, John Gay’s savagely satirical and wildly entertaining ‘ballad opera’ invites you into a world of greed, crime,...