Director Derek Anderson says “Our raw production of Sweeney Todd
will see Sondheim’s gory masterpiece stripped back to a cast of nine and skeletal band. By staging the show in the intimate confines of the new Twickenham Theatre and by exploring Sondheim’s device of the Greek chorus; we can give the audience a up-close and very powerful performance”
SWEENEY TODD is the blood-curdling musical
thriller
about a man driven to madness by injustice.
Laced
with Stephen Sondheim’s characteristically
brilliant
wit and dark humour, the razor sharp tale of
vengeance
and true love features some of the finest
music
ever written for the theatre.
This memorable and horrifyingly dark musical comedy
depicts
the barber Benjamin Barker who,
after
years of false imprisonment, reinvents himself
as
Sweeney Todd and begins a savage quest to
avenge
the wrongs done to him and his family.
Aided
by pie shop owner Mrs. Lovett, he sets out to
bring
justice not only to the judge who destroyed
his
life, but to all the people of London.
This spine chilling new production, with an ensemble
cast,
turns Sondheim’s Victorian masterpiece into a
claustrophobic-ally
close experience that will thrill
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