The story by Alan Ayckbourn follows a young widower, Guy Jones (Jonathan Hester), as he joins an amateur operatic society that is putting on The Beggar’s Opera. He rapidly progresses through the ranks to become the male lead, while simultaneously conducting liaisons with several of the female cast
Produced and directed by Steve Andrews. Alex Hayward-Browne joins, as Cripin Usher, and Steve Atkinson appears (nearly) on stage, playing piano. This seems to be Jude Wright’s last involvement, after 17 years. have a DVD, from Steve A’s original video
The lighting was complicated, so the pantomime techies were drafted in to help. They even got a speaking part: at one stage, “producer” Mark Winton marches through the audience to have an argument with his “lighting people”!
