The Busker's Opera
Robert Lepage, director

Thu, June 16, 2005, 8 pm	Cancelled
Fri, June 17, 2005, 8 pm	Cancelled
Sat, June 18, 2005, 8 pm	Cancelled
Sun, June 19, 2005, 3 pm	Cancelled
Tue, June 21, 2005, 8 pm	Cancelled
Wed, June 22, 2005, 8 pm	Cancelled
Thu, June 23, 2005, 8 pm
Fri, June 24, 2005, 8 pm
Sat, June 25, 2005, 8 pm
Sun, June 26, 2005, 3 pm

Cal Performances regrets to announce the cancellation of several performances of this 2004/05 event. For more information, click here.

Venue: Zellerbach Playhouse

Price: $56

French-Canadian theatrical visionary Robert Lepage has written, directed, and performed some of the most innovative theater of our time, and his previous Cal Performances engagements mesmerized audiences and critics alike, including his solo play The Far Side of the Moon (named the top theatrical event of 2001 by the San Francisco Chronicle). The fearlessly inventive director returns with his latest production: a playfully irreverent re-imagining of John Gay's 18th-century tour-de-force The Beggar's Opera, the inspiration for Brecht/Weill's seminal The Threepenny Opera and a touchstone of modern theater mythology. Like its original source, Lepage's Busker's Opera is told entirely in song, or songspiel, performed by a group of 10 actors, musicians, singers, and a DJ in such varied styles as jazz, reggae, show tunes, rock, blues, tango, and more. Lepage has recast Gay's criminal underworld in a satirical version of today's music industry, questioning the very nature of artistic creation itself.

PATRON INFORMATION

Program Notes: Program notes are available online, click here.

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