Sweeney Todd – Review

Stephen Sondheim’s masterpiece Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, directed by Joe Murphy at The Birmingham Rep, highlights its central character’s overwhelming desire for justice and revenge. Murphy’s interpretation draws parallels between Sweeney Todd and the fallen angel Lucifer, presenting a man so consumed by vengeance that he resorts to the most extreme and twisted methods against those who wronged him years before.