College tours classic production

Sydney's Actors College of Theatre and Television graduate students will tour a production of Brecht and Weill's classic, The Threepenny Opera.

The production will play at Woy Woy, as well as Penrith, Taree, Port Macquarie and Sydney.

Adapted from John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera was first produced in Berlin in 1928.

It combines drama and music to tell the story of conman and gangster, Macheath - "Mack the knife" in the show's famous song.

He is betrayed by a corrupt father-in-law, Peachum, to the supposed forces of law and order.

Conceived by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill as an ironic comment on capitalist art and society, it was an enormous hit in its day and has been regularly revived ever since.

The production is directed by John Senczuk.

The musical director is Andrew Davidson.

Press release, June 4.