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JOHN GAY |
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Adaptation / Translations of Plays by John Gay |
Beggars Opera, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 15 Sep 2009 | |||||
Organisations: | Vanishing Point | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104875 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - John Gay | |||||
Synopsis: | slams the play straight into a dysto[ian late 21st century gangster world of stinking, smoky air and fierce social divisions. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Beggar's Opera, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Liverpool | 1977 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #3823 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - John Gay | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Beggar's Opera, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5677 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 16 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - John Gay, Written in collaboration with Illona Sekacz | |||||
Synopsis: | John Gay's great comic masterpiece is generally agreed to be the first ever musical. Written in 1728, THE BEGGAR'S OPERA is a savagely funny satire on marriage, money and morals-as relevant and biting today as it was when first written. In this new version by John Caird and Ilona Sekacz, the old story is given new life as all our favorite characters return, in a play within a play, where beggars and thieves create a world of love, lust, violence, deceit, greed and a little more love. Ilona Sekacz's score uses all the old tunes, but brings them up to date in a superb synthesis of eighteenth and twentieth-century musical styles. John Caird's stage directions make the old text sizzle with life, giving a clear context for Gay's ruthless characters and driving the convoluted plot at a helter-skelter pace. Peachum, a purveyor of stolen goods, and his rapacious wife, are horrified to find that their only child, Polly, has fallen in love with, and worse still married, Captain Macheath, the famous highwayman. Peachum | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Beggar's Opera, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Queen's, Hornchurch | 2000 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59017 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - John Gay | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Beggar's Opera, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Organisations: | Out of Joint | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #93774 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - John Gay | |||||
Synopsis: | takes place on a convict ship bound for Australia in a co-production with the Sydney Theatre Company | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Beggar's Opera, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #31282 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 16 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - John Gay, Written in collaboration with John Caird | |||||
Synopsis: | John Gay's great comic masterpiece is generally agreed to be the first ever musical. Written in 1728, THE BEGGAR'S OPERA is a savagely funny satire on marriage, money and moralsas relevant and biting today as it was when first written. In this new version by John Caird and Ilona Sekacz, the old story is given new life as all our favorite characters return, in a play within a play, where beggars and thieves create a world of love, lust, violence, deceit, greed and a little more love. Ilona Sekacz's score uses all the old tunes, but brings them up to date in a superb synthesis of eighteenth and twentieth-century musical styles. John Caird's stage directions make the old text sizzle with life, giving a clear context for Gay's ruthless characters and driving the convoluted plot at a helter-skelter pace. Peachum, a purveyor of stolen goods, and his rapacious wife, are horrified to find that their only child, Polly, has fallen in love with, and worse still 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. Act One ends with Macheath emerging from his hiding place (in Polly's bed) and the lovers swearing eternal fidelity to each other as Macheath flies to safety. Macheath is arrested and imprisoned by the corrupt jailer, Lockit, whose daughter Lucy turns out to be another of Macheath's lovers, now heavily pregnant with his child. Polly's prison visit to her husband causes an embarrassing and ludicrous collision between the two women who fight viciously for Macheath's affection. Polly is dragged away by her father and Lucy helps Macheath escape. Act Two closes with both women grieving for their departed man. Act Three sees Macheath re-arrested and as the story enters into ever more dark and political territory, Gay uses Macheath's plight to talk about injustice and poverty wherever and whenever it occurs. After a heartbreaking trio as Macheath and his two wivesand then a few morebid farewell, Macheath is hanged. There follows a stunning and hilarious coup de theatre, as the public objects to the tragic turn of events. Macheath's hanging is "reversed," and the company of beggars improvise a joyful and shambolic happy ending. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Beggar's Opera, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1968 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1982 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35085 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - John Gay; music edited by Benjamin Pearce Higgins | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Beggar's Opera, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Organisations: | ||||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #102148 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - John Gay | |||||
Synopsis: | The future's here. It's a brave new world, but wherever there's a world there's an underworld: muggers, smugglers, prostitutes, thieves. Nobody plays by the rules, least of all MacHeath - bandit, hedonist, superhero to some, villain to others. Among imitators and wannabes, he's the genuine article. But where he goes, trouble is sure to follow. MacHeath has married Polly Peachum. But he fancies Lucy Lockit. Lucy Lockit fancies MacHeath, but Polly doesn't want to share. Mr Peachum wants MacHeath's head, and so does Mr Lockit. And so does the law. With so many enemies, it's hard to tell who your friends are. John Gay's 17th century play The Beggar's Opera has been reconfigured to the not-so distant future. A dark, seedy, absurd, visually rich and cruelly comic co-production featuring new music from Alasdair Macrae and A Band Called Quinn, cutting edge production design and a large cast of leading performers | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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S P Opera | ||
| 1st Produced: | Newcastle | 1973 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34033 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - John Gay (Beggar's Opera) | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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