'The world's first musical - and still one of the best - The Beggar's Opera is the raucous tale of ladies' man Macheath and sweet Polly Peachum juggling love and deceit in the dirty underbelly of 18th Century London.
'In [The Convict's Opera] writer Stephen Jeffreys and celebrated British director Max Stafford-Clark shift the setting to a creaking convict ship bound for Australia. To pass the time, a group of convicts put on an opera set in the world they've left far behind, and will probably never see again.'
Source: Sydney Theatre Company website, http://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/
Sighted: 08/10/2008
