To create a character who inhabits public space and who deals with it in a half improvised, half scripted way. A character marginal enough to be able to talk to everybody, to say whatever he pleases, and be there without really being noticed - like servants and madmen. He functions as a catalyst: he distributes information, and he provokes events that create a narrative, in the form of a conversation or an action.

It was only logical to use the figure of the beggar. The Beggar's Opera, the XVIII century opera by John Gay adapted by Bertolt Brecht under the title The Threepenny Opera, is the model we adapt and adopt, as an homage and as a leading thread, to create the character of The Beggar. The Beggar is Filch, the apprentice beggar in both Gay's and Brecht's plays. It goes without saying that reference to such works underlines the parallels between beggar/ poet/ actor/ player/ critic.

This internet site is The Beggar's diary, which generates a narrative every day. In addition to that, some of Muenster's citizens and visitors will be lucky enough to come across him in person, LIVE. And in addition to that, as a third format of presentation, he will have his own monologues at Muenster's well-known Metropolis Theater.

The Beggar's Opera is a work of Dora García for skulptur projekte münster 07, in collaboration with Samir Kandil, Jan Mech, and Peter Aers.

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