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The Sunday Play: Opera do Malandro

on BBC Radio 3

Chico Buarque 's Brazilian version of The Threepenny Opera, adapted by Colin Sharpe , translated by Elizabeth Wynn Jones , is set to the rhythms of the samba and the rumba. In the Rio underworld of the forties, a time of dictatorship and Carmen Miranda ,
Max, the malandro, marries Teresinha, and all hell breaks loose on the streets; the prostitutes, the police and the industrialists are all unhappy.
Musical director Tayo Akimbode. Musicians Adam Ryan Carter. Dave Hassel , Dewe Gede Suwija. Matt Nickson and Tayo Akimbode Director Kate Rowland

Contributors

Unknown:
Chico Buarque
Adapted By:
Colin Sharpe
Translated By:
Elizabeth Wynn Jones
Translated By:
Carmen Miranda
Director:
Tayo Akimbode.
Musicians:
Adam Ryan Carter.
Musicians:
Dave Hassel
Musicians:
Dewe Gede
Unknown:
Matt Nickson
Director:
Kate Rowland
Max:
George Costigan
Teresinha:
Michelle Holmes
Gem:
Ray Emmett Brown
Duran:
Tom Georgeson
Vitoria:
Denise Black
Chaves:
Andrew Scholfield
Lucia:
Kathryn Hunt
Dorinha:
Dona Croll
Fichinha:
Paula Simms
Barrabas:
Martin Reeve
Mimi:
Carol McGuigan
Johnny:
James McMartin
Judge:
Jeffrey Roberts

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