A collaboration with the Royal Lyceum and Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre, this collectively devised adaptation resets Gay’s tale of crime and corruption to a futuristic, dystopian Scotland of hyper-technology and social and sexual degeneracy.
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Beggar’s Opera falls short
Vanishing Point theatre company’s new version of John Gay’s 18th-century satire The Beggar’s Opera is that most frustrating of theatrical creatures, the good production from which a brilliant presentation is struggling to emerge.
