Max Stafford-Clark directs this piece which tells the story of prisoners staging John Gay's The Beggar's Opera in 1812 Britain.
Like a recidivist criminal, that fine director Max Stafford-Clark is returning to the scene of the crime. Twenty years ago he scored one of his biggest hits with a double-bill of The Recruiting Officer and Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good, which told the story of a group of British convicts staging Farquhar’s great Restoration comedy in the early days of the penal colony in Australia.
In this new piece, written and adapted by Stephen Jeffreys, Stafford-Clark directs the story of a group of British prisoners staging John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera (1728) during the long transportation voyage from the London docks to Australia.
Nothing like a bit of culture to start a Sunday morning.
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