Photo Flash: First Look At New Production Of SWEENEY TODD At The Stockwell Playhouse

Production photos have been released for Geoids Musical Theatre's production of Sweeney Todd, which comes to London for a limited run at the Stockwell Playhouse from 2 to 6 May 2018.

Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, returns to nineteenth century London, seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. On the road to revenge Todd finds an accomplice in Mrs. Lovett, the owner of a failing pie shop, above which he opens his new barbershop. Todd's thirst for blood means than there is soon no shortage of raw ingredients for Lovett's meat pies and the people of London are lining up to try them...

Geoids' production aims to explore the story's Fleet Street roots and the role of sensationalism in the news and print industry in creating a character of Victorian melodrama.

Geoids' production will feature Thomas Isherwood, who recently appeared in the King's Head Theatre/Trafalgar Studios Olivier Award nominated production of La bohème, as Sweeney Todd and Maria Waters, who recently appeared in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Play for the Nation at the Barbican Centre, as Mrs Lovett. It will also include new costume designs by Lemington Ridley (2016 BroadwayWorld UK / West End Awards Nomination for Best Costume Design, Ragtime), a new production design by John Winters and is directed by Dom O'Hanlon with musical direction by Erika Gundesen.

Photo Credit: Stephen Russell

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