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NARRATOR: The Threepenny Opera.
WILL: My name is Will Kenning and I play Tiger Brown, the chief of police in The Threepenny Opera.
I wear the full ceremonial police kit - lots of stuff on the lapels and the flat hat as well.
The Cannon song is a big drinking song which is about
Tiger Brown and MacHeith celebrating their friendship
and the fact that they fought together in India.
During this is just complete mayhem, the Cannon song starts raucous
and ends even more raucous.
There's whiskey, tablecloths and mayhem everywhere and by the end everyone is joining in.
ALL: The British Army Will make salami from Basra to Goose Green (Oi Oi Oi).
TIGER BROWN: We'll help the foreigner
MACHEATH: To meet the coroner.
TIGER BROWN: Brown or black or khaki.
MACHEATH: Afghani or Iraqi.
BOTH: You'll notice from the bodies where the squaddies have been.
AMELIA: Hello, my name is Amelia Cavallo and I play Jenny Diver.
Jenny wears a very bright pink corset with black bleeding all over it
and very skimpy black bloomers.
She also wears fishnet tights and black heels.
Her appearances take place in a brothel - an assortment of chairs and ironing boards
and things like that all over the stage with many *** clad ladies in and amongst them
- with very moody red lighting and lots of funky lampshades hanging from the ceiling.
One of the main songs that Jenny sings is the ***'s Tango, or Tango Ballad.
Its a duet between her and MacHeith. In the song Jenny and MacHeith have quite a solitary tango,
some of it uses my mobility cane which is painted orange with red flames going up and down it.
We hold that between us and dance. In and amongst that the musicians
and the other people onstage also dance.
JENNY: Since that fine day so many have gone by.
We have our share of wrinkles, you and I.
MACHEATH: While you were mine the world was full of sun.
JENNY: Perhaps it was fine until everything went wrong.
CICI: I'm Cici and I play Polly Peachum.
I have a red, long wedding dress made up from lots of different types of fabric
with a bolero jacket. These have hair accessories to match.
Barbara Song is about the men I've dated and not slept with - that is until MacHeith.
During the song there are many images of men projected on the screen.
At the end of the song myself and Jude, our lovely signing interpreter
who signs provocatively, end up standing on a scaffolding platform.
POLLY: I had learned to keep my head held high now I learned to hold it low.
First we wandered through the starry night,
then we even had a meal by candlelight and it somehow has to be so.
Yes you're sometimes glad to pull your knickers down.
There'll be times when you'd be mad to tell him no.
Once you've met him you won't forget him,
so never ever let him go.