Sondheim's ASSASSINS Will Be Revived at Islington's Pleasance Theatre

Stephen Sondheim's Assassins will be revived at Islington's Pleasance Theatre for a limited 3-week run this March. Sondheim's charming score goes to dark, bold and hysterical places showing us people who made history by simply pulling a trigger.

Over the last 152 years, 9 Americans have tried to kill - no, assassinate - 8 American presidents, only 4 of them successfully. Why? Sondheim's Assassins tells us the story of these ambitious, deluded, passionate, desperate people who believed that the solution to their problems was to shoot the guy in charge.

"When you kill a president, it isn't murder. Murder is a tawdry little crime, born of greed, lust, or liquor. Adulterers and shopkeepers get murdered. But when a President gets killed, when Julius Caesar got killed... he was assassinated."

But does that make it right?

Assassins is based on an idea by Charles Gilbert Jr. and features original orchestration by Michael Starobin and libretto by John Weidman. Playwright Horizons Inc. produced Assassins off-Broadway in 1990 and the first Broadway production opened in 2004 from Roundabout Theatre Company, winning five Tony Awards.

To book or for more information, visit https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/assassins#overview.

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