Cast announced for The Beggar's Opera at Open Air

Casting has been announced for The Beggar's Opera, a comedy by John Gay, which opens at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, 28 June 2011, following previews from 23 June - running to 23 July 2011.

It is directed by Lucy Bailey, designed by William Dudley, movement by Punchdrunk's Maxine Doyle

Highwayman Macheath's love of wine, women and song has hilarious consequences, but as the play unfolds his tangled web of lies and deceit unravels as his lovers get revenge. Set beneath the gallows of rural Tyburn, at the far end of Oxford Street, this comically corrupt satire, is packed full of lewd songs and low ballads recreated from the original pastoral score and played on authentic instruments by'The City Waits', led by Roddy and Lucie Skeaping.