REVIEW: Sweeney Todd (The Loft Theatre Company)
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REVIEW: Sweeney Todd (The Loft Theatre Company)
HAND on heart, you can readily call this a full-blooded production. The throat-slitting antics of the Demon Barber and the gruesome pie-filling by his woman associate are legend and the challenge is to create their grim Victorian environment with panache. In a mood reflecting Sweeney’s obsessive revenge mission, back-street London comes alive. Dark buildings, hidden hideyholes and shadowy stairways pinpoint a world of poverty and social injustice which is cleverly accentuated
