Sweeney Todd - dark story, brilliant theatre for Bel Air, Maryland (September 2010)
Sweeney Todd – Dark story, brilliant theatre for Bel Air, MD (September, 2010) A barber, wrongly imprisoned for life, escapes after 15 years to pre-industrial London to exact revenge on his persecutors. In the process he befriends a meat pie purveyor and in order to augment her supply of pie ingredients exacts revenge on everyone else. In the words of my 14-year-old son: That’s pretty messed up. The show is Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, directed by Todd Starkey, which continues its two-weekend run at Bel Air’s Phoenix Festival Theatre in residence at Harford Community College Sept 17-19. The theater amusingly subtitles publicity for this show with the statement: Adult Themes. What would those be? Let’s see. Extortion, murder, gang rape, improper relationships with foster children and unbridled cannibalism to name a few. And this is not an exhaustive list. You could be forgiven if, so far, you are not jumping up to buy tickets for this show. Don’t make ...