Name: The Threepenny Opera
Start: 2022-03-02T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2022-03-02T22:00:00+00:00
Location: Courtyard Theatre, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

This event has multiple dates:

Wednesday 2 March 2022, 7.30-10pm
Thursday 3 March 2022, 7.30-10pm
Friday 4 March 2022, 2.30-5pm
Friday 4 March 2022, 7.30-10pm
Saturday 5 March 2022, 2.30-5pm
Saturday 5 March 2022, 7.30-10pm

By Bertolt Brecht

Music by Kurt Weill

In collaboration with Elizabeth Hauptmann

A new version by Simon Stephens

Performed by BA (Hons) Acting CDT

Designed & produced by BA (Hons) Theatre Practice

In an exciting new adaptation by Simon Stephens, Acting CDT bring Brecht and Kurt Weil’s classic to life – expect scandal, humour, and naughtiness.

London’s most notorious criminal, Macheath, has recently married Polly, the daughter of Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum, leader of the beggars. Mr Peachum is so displeased that he concocts a plan to have his new son-in-law hanged. Through a deceitful web of blackmail, bribery and brothels, Macheath is caught and taken to the gallows. Will he hang or will he be offered an escape? Witness the story unfold in this magnificent opera for beggars.

By permission of Universal Edition AG, Vienna. On behalf of Universal Edition (London) Ltd on behalf of European American Music Corp. (EAMC) and Alan Brodie Representation.

This production contains haze, simulated gun shots, very strong language, scenes discussing and depicting physical violence, sexual acts, sexual violence, substance use and abuse, knives, miscarriage, and potential hanging.

Showtimes

Wednesday 2 – Saturday 5 March, 7.30pm*
Friday 4 – Saturday 5 March, 2.30pm

Approximate running time: 2 hours and 35 minutes, including a 20 minute interval

*Friday 4 March 7.30pm performance followed by Post-show Talkback event

Location

Courtyard Theatre, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Post-show Talkback Event

The Threepenny Opera with Sherrill Gow and director David Ashley

Friday 4 March, following the 7:30pm performance
Sherrill Gow is Joint Head of Postgraduate Performance at Mountview (Acting and Musical Theatre pathways) and a (hopefully soon-to-be finished) PhD candidate at Central. Her research develops feminist practices to critique and intervene in musical theatre training and repertoire that tacitly accept or vigorously reproduce restrictively androcentric, ableist, classist, Eurocentric, and heterocentric worldviews. She identifies principles and methods from feminist performance criticism and pedagogies, musical theatre scholarship, and acting and directing techniques, to consider how these might work together to create an anti-oppressive framework for conservatoire training. Her paper ‘Queering Brechtian feminism: Breaking down gender binaries in musical theatre pedagogical practices’ was selected for the Bruce Kirle Memorial 2018 Debut Panel by the Musical Theatre/Dance focus group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) and published in Studies in Musical Theatre.

Booking and Venue Information

Booking for live performances at the Courtyard Theatre is open via Eventbrite.

Tickets

Tickets: £10 general admission / £5 concessions.
Complimentary tickets: industry and associated professionals.
NB: Tickets are non-refundable.
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Accessibility

The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama is fully wheelchair accessible, please speak with our box office team on 02077228183 or boxoffice@cssd.ac.uk if you have any further enquiries.
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