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If The Convict's Opera tour comes to a theatre near you- go, it's excellent. It's the Beggar's Opera, as performed by a bunch of convicts on a transport ship to Australia, and with some modern songs interspersed with the original ones, and it's done brilliantly- I can't think of another play or opera recently that I've come out of wishing it had been longer. The conceit and the staging of it worked really well, and the cast were terrific.

(One reviewer said this didn't measure up to Our Country's Good which apparently did a very similar thing in 1988, so if you were a regular playgoer 20 years ago this may disappoint you, I guess.)

In other news, lots of Dutch lottery spam today. Huh.