4Reviewer’s RatingMacheath was conceived as a loveable rogue, a highwayman type, in the original John Gay send-up of opera, politics, society and greed, The Beggar’s Opera, the big innovative hit of the London season in 1728.  He is a very appealing anti-hero. He is also a Don Giovanni type. He becomes Mack the Knife in the Brecht/Weill adaptation of the same as The Threepenny Opera. You have probably heard his song. And now the theatre company from Cornwall, Kneehigh, with … Continue reading Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and Other Love Songs)