(Ninth Season) to be given before an audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House
The Tuppenny-ha'penny Opera
A Work specially written for Beggars
Music by Kurt Weill
Adapted by C. Denis Freeman from Die Dreigroschenoper of Bert Brecht (after The Beggar's Opera of John Gay)
Characters
Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum, leader of a beggars' gang
Mrs. Peachum
Polly Peachum, their daughter
Macheath, leader of a gang of street bandits
Brown, chief of London Police
Lucy, his daughter
Filch, one of Peachum's beggars
Pot-house Jenny
Members of Macheath's gang
The action of the play takes place in the slums of London
Produced by C. Denis Freeman
Orchestra under the direction of Edward Clark