SDC
YOUTH THEATRE
present
‘Sweeney Todd - the Demon Barber of
Fleet Street’
...in the bar studio theatre
Book by Hugh Wheeler and Music and
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim |
The
story centers on the character of Sweeney Todd,
formerly known as Benjamin Barker, who returns from the penal
colonies in Australia, where he has
spent fifteen years on false charges. When he learns from Mrs.
Lovett, whose meat pies are the worst in London,
that his wife poisoned herself after being raped by Judge Turpin (the man
who wrongly imprisoned him), and that his daughter is the ward of the same
Judge Turpin, he vows revenge. The two become conspirators in a dark plot
that results in mass murder, booming business for Lovett's shop, and
ultimately tragedy.
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