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The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland presents

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

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Age recommendation: 14+

BSL interpreted: Friday 5th – 7pm

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.


Cast

Demon Cast

Sweeney Todd Cassidy Bridge

Mrs Lovett Letago Makola

Anthony Hope Gilli Jones

Johanna Cerys Devine

Tobias Ragg Melody Nehme

Beggar Woman Anna Frances Hamilton

Judge Turpin Nathaniel Attard

The Beadle Joshua Scott

Adolfo Pirelli Grace Bennett

Ensemble
Will Collier, Bailey Easton, Joseph Mathieson Gill, Avril McLoughlin, Avina Shah, Mizuki Shuzenji, Aida Valentine, Elsie Watson, Hayley Yorston

Barber Cast

Sweeney Todd Joseph Mathieson Gill

Mrs Lovett Avril McLoughlin

Anthony Hope Bailey Easton

Johanna Elsie Watson

Tobias Ragg Will Collier

Beggar Woman Hayley Yorston

Judge Turpin Nathaniel Attard

The Beadle Joshua Scott

Adolfo Pirelli Grace Bennett

Ensemble
Cassidy Bridge, Cerys Devine, Anna Hamilton, Gilli Jones, Letago Makola, Melody Nehme, Avina Shah, Mizuki Shuzenji, Aida Valentine

Creative and Production Team

Director Aaron Lee Lambert

Choreographer Vicki Manderson

Musical Director Miguel Esteban

Associate Musical Director(s) Freya Hartley, Riccardo Atanasio

Assistant Choreographer Olivia Carlin

Set & Costume Designer Claire Halleran

Lighting Designer Kai Fischer

Sound Designer Sonny Wardrope

Musical Supervisor David Higham

Vocal Support Gordon Adams

Spoken Voice Support Bill Wright

Dialect Coach Rachel Nicholson

Fight Director Robin Hellier

Intimacy Coordinator Sharon Mackay

Assistant Director Aida Valentine

Dance Captain Melody Nehme

Music Captain Grace Bennett

Voice Captain Cerys Devine

Fight Captain(s) Joseph Gill, Mizuki Shuzenji

Production Manager Chris McDougall

Stage Manager Aimee Fleming

Deputy Stage Manager Rachael Brown

Assistant Stage Manager(s) Hamish Bell, Emily Lumley, Grace Manion, Kate Gibson

Production Electrician Jon Ross

Deputy Production Electrician Sal Quinlan

 

Additional Production support provided by first year BA Production Arts & Design and BA Production Technology & Management

Lighting Programmer Paige MacGillivray

Lighting Technician(s) Alex Foote, Logan Cortes, Devin Jamieson

Production Sound Engineer Cameron Peden

Sound No. 1Haydon Brewis

Sound No. 2 Julia Coulthard

Sound Technicians Kim Bookham, Ava Barclay, Dale Muir

Stage Supervisor Pipe

Deputy Stage Supervisor Roy Mohan Shearer & Skye Bell-Burn

Head of Flies Trudy Nelson

Stage Technicians Louisa Gormley, Kiera Lawniczak, Nicole Shepherd

Costume Supervisor Lynne McGinley

Costume Maker(s) Iona Allan, Eilidh McGroarty, Cerys Coffield, Hero Turner, Eryn Hill, Ashley Duffy, Tracy Taylor

Costume Assistant Eve Wyllie

Senior Prop Maker Zoe Roy

Prop Maker(s) Karina Aitken, Paul Atkinson, Isobella Strange, Alathea Osborn, Melissa Skye Henfrey Masters, Andrew Scott Macfarlane, Jake Keenan, Dominic McFadden, Maya Hawthrorn, Jordan Macneil, Fin Climie

Head Scenic Artist Matthew Whittle

Scenic Artist(s) Tiffany Campbell, Eve Carey, Kate Rafferty

Assistant Scenic Artist(s) Aine Hunter, Anna Lennon, Lisa-Jane Masters

Scenery Construction By Ruben San Roman & Jamie Fleming

Production Carpenter Jacob Dunsmore & Maria Ruby Rose

Carpenter(s) George Robert Grahamslaw, Charles William Haggarty, Matthew Macmillan, Galen Bryden, Jacob Dunsmore, Maria Scott, Mark Walters, Cameron Donaldson, Hope Gibson

Orchestra

Conductor Miguel Esteban

Organ Riccardo Atanasio

Keys 2 Freya Hartley

Keys 3 Abby Fabel

Flute (pic) Phoebe Jones

Oboe (cor) Marianna Koneva

Clarinet Scott Hutchinson, Markos Hayes

Horn Ellie Wilson

Trumpet(s) Frederick Faragher/Anthony Boyko

Trombone Reuben McFarlane

Percussion Denholm Owens & Robbie Bremner

Accordion Yuan Wong

Violin Bethany Pugh Luisa Sousa Meredith Kiemer

Viola Merryn Stephenson

Cello Walker Harris, Chun Wang Chu

Bass Illia Hutsul