"Married! Do you think your Mother and I should have liv'd comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married?"

The world’s first musical - and one of the best – gets a fantastic re-imagining from director Max Stafford-Clark and writer Stephen Jeffreys (The Libertine).

We shift the setting to a creaking convict ship bound for Australia. To pass the time, the convicts put on an opera – an opera set in the world they’ve left far behind, and will probably never see again…

Based on The Beggar's Opera by John Gay.