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Sweeney Todd " review by Michael Billington

Chichester Festival theatreProductions of Sondheim's dark masterpiece tend to oscillate between a quasi-industrial vastness and a psychologically revealing intimacy. The great quality of Jonathan Kent's superb revival is that it has elements of both. Anthony Ward's design, with its circular gallery filled with gaping windows, evokes the seething activity of a dilapidated, working-class London. But, while providing a …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:15PM on October 7, 2011

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