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The Beggars Opera

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Directed by

 
Peter Brook

Written by

Writer
Role
 
Christopher Fry
Writer
 
Denis Cannan
Writer
 
John Gay
Libretto

Music by

Artist
Role
 
Arthur Bliss
Music

Starring

Actors
Character
 
Laurence Olivier
Captain MacHeath
 
Hugh Griffith
The Beggar
 
George Rose
1st Turnkey
 
Stuart Burge
1st Prisoner
 
Cyril Conway
2nd Prisoner
 
Gerald Lawson
3rd Prisoner
 
Dorothy Tutin
Polly Peachum
 
George Devine
Peachum
 
Mary Clare
Mrs. Peachum
 
Edward Pryor
Filch
 
Athene Seyler
Mrs. Trapes
 
Stanley Holloway
Mr. Lockit
 
Daphne Anderson
Lucy Lockit
 
Eric Pohlmann
Inn Keeper
 
Yvonne Furneaux
Jenny Diver
 
Kenneth Williams
Jack the Pot Boy
 
Sandra Dorne
Sukey Tawdrey
 
Laurence Naismith
Matt of the Mint
 
Max Brent
A Drunkard
 
Mercy Haystead
Dolly Trull
 
Patricia Raine
Mrs. Slammekin
 
Jocelyn James
Molly Brazen
 
Isabel George
Mrs. Vixen
 
Helen Christie
Betty Doxey
 
John Kidd
2nd Turnkey
 
Herbert C. Walton
3rd Turnkey
 
Eugene Leahy
4th Turnkey
 
Edgar Norfolk
5th Turnkey
 
Oliver Hunter
2nd Chairman
 
Madge Brindley
Gin Seller
 
Felix Felton
Governor
 
Denis Cannan
John, the Footman
 
Margot Grahame
The Actress
 
Tamba Allen
Negro Page
 
Terence Greenidge
Chaplain
 
Billy Wells
Hangman
 
Adele Leigh
Singing voice
 
Jennifer Vyvyan
Singing voice
 
Edith Coats
Singing voice
 
Joan Cross
Singing voice
 
John Cameron
Singing voice
 
Bruce Boyce
Singing voice
 
Alanna Boyce
Urchin
 
John Baker
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