The Bangers Flopera: A Musical Perversion (FringeNYC)

The Bangers Flopera is an update (or “perversion”) of the infamous Beggar’s Opera (the 18th century play which is also the source for Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera). Where the original featured a cast of beggars, hookers and crooks, this new version features “gangstaz, pornstaz, and popstaz,” depicting the many ways in which our captivatingly corrupt culture idolizes and gives political influence to its own destructive elements. With a 16 song score, in styles ranging from rock and rap to torch songs and psychedelic power ballads, Banger’s offers a full rock musical experience along with a quintessentially mind-spinning Bromley script deeply steeped in “sex, thugs, and rock-n-roll.” True to its source in its ghetto and sleaze themes, it stars the infamous Mac the Knife, who in this version is morphed into a professional pornographer and consummate New York Gangsta, as he cheats, robs and murders his way to the electric chair, only to be pardoned last minute by a criminal-friendly President. Kirk Wood Bromley is a NYC-based playwright, actor, theater writer, musician and Artistic Director of Inverse Theater Company.

Schedule

Sunday, August 14th @ 3:45PM

Friday, August 26th @ 9:45PM

Thursday, August 18th @ 2:00PM

Saturday, August 27th @ 11:00PM

Sunday, August 21st @ 2:15PM