Spoilers, obviously. Read at your own risk.
"Ballad of the Drowned Girl" is performed by Lucy Brown (Lilli Cooper) immediately following the wedding scene. "Lucy's Aria" is not used in this production.
The production opens with a woman lying on the ground, skirt hiked up. The dog is licking her thigh. Macheath enters and shoos the dog away, then prods the woman with his walking stick.
The dog reappears in the wedding scene, jumping up on a chair and eating food off the banquet table.
There is nudity and simulated sex in Jenny's brothel. A whore is shown completely nude. Jenny wears a see-through top that clearly shows her breasts. Jenny is then shown simulating sex (him taking her from behind in a picture-window above the stage) with a customer, while Mrs Peachum sings a reprise of "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency".
The dog returns one last time in the coronation scene, as Queen Victoria. It's placed in a wagon in a crown and cape and paraded around the stage.
The whole dog bit struck me as the idea of a third-year directing major who thinks she's much more clever than she actually is, not an established and renowned director.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Updated On: 3/17/14 at 12:12 PM
