Policeman with Beggar's Opera performers, London

Sep. 09, 1981 - Fair Cop: Scottish Opera has brought its highly acclaimed Edinburgh Festival production of the Beggar's Opera to the Dominion Theatre, London. The Opera opened last night for a limited run of only ten days. The Beggars Opera which is based on the low life of eighteenth century London was first performed at the Lincoln's Inn Theater in 1728 and is often considered the ancestor of the American musical. Picture shows A London policeman arrests The Highwayman, Captain MacHeath, played by Ian Caddy, (left) and Lockit the Gaoler, played by Norman White (right) outside the Dominion Theater in Tottenham Court Road, this morning

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