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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tue 2 – Fri 5 December 2025
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Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
Directed by Aaron Lee Lambert
Obsession. Murder. Cannibalism. Sondheim.
Attend a tale of justice in an unjust world as Sweeney Todd arrives back in Victorian London, after fifteen years of false imprisonment, to seek vengeance against the judge who destroyed his life. Todd joins forces with Mrs. Lovett, the unhinged proprietress of a failing pie shop, and together they develop a spinetingling plot to exact revenge…but who gets eaten and who gets to eat?
Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s multi-award-winning masterpiece returns to the New Athenaeum stage featuring our final-year BA Musical Theatre cohort in a new production directed by Aaron Lee Lambert.
Set & Costume Design by Claire Halleran
Lighting Design by Kai Fischer
Based on an adaptation by Christopher Bond
Originally directed on Broadway by Hal Prince
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
This amateur production is presented by arrangement with
Music Theatre International. All authorised performance
materials are also supplied by MTI www.MTIShows.co.uk
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Price: £5 – £29
BSL interpreted: Friday 5th – 7pm
Age recommendation: 14+
Content warning: Violence and Gore; Cannibalism; Sexual Content; Dark Themes; Disturbing Humour; Intimations of Sexual Violence, Self-Harm, and Animal Death.
Performance may include strobe lighting effects and sudden loud sounds, including gun shots.