The Threepenny Opera
In Performance

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Where's my contact lens?

'Just a jackknife...'



The Ballad of Mack the Knife

'The moon over Dock Street'



Peachum's Morning-Chorale

The perils of unlicensed begging explained to Filch



Mack views his charge list

Peachum and Mrs Peachum tag-team Polly



Instead-Of song

Polly tries to justify her love-life



You'll get a clip round the ear...

Mrs Peachum hits the bottle...



... but it seems to go down the wrong way.

Mack and Polly's wedding



The Army Song

Brown begins to regret participating in this number...



A lovely nightdress

Mack and Polly part



Melodrama

The Prostitutes (mind the wig...)



Mack, Jenny, and a whole room of 'sexual assistants'

Jealousy Duet



Peachum tightens the screws on Brown

Mack imprisoned



The Poorest of the Poor

Mack's gang fail to free him



Asparagus and grovelling

Is this the end for Mack?


 

REPRIEVED!!!
 

All photographs by Adam Johansen

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