THE BEGGAR’S OPERA

By MR. GAY

New Settings of the Airs and Additional Music by Frederic Austin.

CAST

PEACHUM.........................FREDERIC AUSTIN
LOCKIT..........................ARTHUR WYNN
MACHEATH........................FREDERICK RANALOW
FILCH...........................ALFRED HEATHER
THE BEGGAR......................ARNOLD PILBEAM
MRS. PEACHUM....................ELSIE FRENCH
POLLY PEACHUM...................SYLVIA NELIS
LUCY LOCKIT.....................VIOLET MARQUESITA
DIANA TRAPES....................BERYL FREEMAN
JENNY DIVER.....................NONNY LOCK

Drawer:  DAVID HODDER Turnkey:  JACK GIRLING

Members of Macheath’s Gang: 

ALAN TROTTER,
MALCOLM RIGNOLD,
JOHN CLIFFORD,
EDWARD BARRS,
CHARLES STAITE

Women of the Town: 

VERA HURST,
ELLA MILNE,
WINIFRED CHRISTIE,
MILDRED WATSON,
SYDNEY LEON,
EDITH BARTLETT

* * * * *

PERIOD 1728

ACT I. PEACHUM’S HOUSE
ACT II.  Sc. i.  A TAVERN.  Near Newgate
         Sc. ii.  NEWGATE
ACT III.  Sc. i.  A STREET
         Sc. ii.  NEWGATE
         Sc. iii.  THE CONDEMN’D HOLD

Scenes and Costumes designed by C. Lovat Fraser.

* * * * * Produced by NIGEL PLAYFAIR

INDEX

“Absence,” 5; quoted, 6
“Achilles,” 134, 135, 141, 142
“Acis and Galatea,” 134
Addison, Joseph, 11, 12, 13-14, 16, 23, 37, 44
Alais, J.D’., 28
Anne, Queen, 24, 33
“Araminta,” 20
Arbuthnot, Dr., 22, 23, 24, 29, 34, 41, 42, 44, 51, 58, 66, 94, 95,
  105, 109, 146;
  letters quoted: 
  to Parnell, 39;
  to Pope, 138;
  to Swift, 30, 34, 102, 109, 111, 145
Argyll, Duke of, 80
Aston (actor), 142
Atterbury, Francis, Bishop of Rochester, 12, 23

Baller, Anthony (brother-in-law of the poet), 2
  Mrs. Anthony, i.e., Gay, Katherine (q. v.)
  Rev. Joseph (nephew of the poet), 2, 140;
    his “Gay’s Chair,” quoted, 4
Barber, Mrs., 127
Bathurst, Lord, 50, 54, 58, 72, 92, 145;
  letter to Swift, quoted, 145,
  “Beggar’s Opera, The,” 41, 75, 78-91;
  “Notes on the Sources of the Tunes of ‘The Beggar’s Opera,’” by W.H. 
    Grattan Flood, Mus.  D., 150;
  programme of the revival at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, June, 1920, 162. 
Bellenden, Madge, 47
  Mary, 46, 47, 49
Berkeley, Hon. George, 140
Bicknell, Mrs., 37, 42
Binks, Mrs., 142
Bloodworth, Mr., 131
Blount, Martha, 47, 72, 94, 130, 131