![](https://givingvoice.cz/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/440px_2009_BeggarsOpera_icon.jpg)
The Beggar’s Opera
by Václav Havel
19th century London. Macheath, a womaniser and head of a criminal organization, secretly marries the daughters of both his enemies. Hence, he is escaping the noose. Willy Peachum is a godfather willing to give up anything to serve the devilish state and have Macheath hanged for threatening his public enterprise and private bliss.