The Threepenny Opera at Video Cabaret

Unbridled Theatre Collective, a new outfit, opened a run of Brecht/Weill’s The Threepenny Opera at Video Cabaret on Thursday evening.  It’s in an updated version created for The National Theatre  by Simon Stephens in 2016 and it’s so updated it might well be retitled The 1.25p Opera. It’s raunchy and contains sexually explicit language and action (including some rather disturbing sexual violence) that would never have made it past the censors back in the day.

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LibLab reading

A few weeks ago I wrote about the Tapestry LibLab; a structured creative collaboration between composers and librettists.  Yesterday we got a preview of the results.  Twelve works created in this year’s programme were given a run through by the previously announced performers plus singer/dance Eva Tavares.  The works will form the basis of this year’s Tapestry Briefs show in November when they will be fully staged.

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