SWEENEY TODD Returns To London For A Strictly Limited Run

Geoids Musical Theatre presents Stephen Sondheim's macabre masterpiece Sweeney Todd, which comes to London for a limited run at the Stockwell Playhouse from 2 to 6 May 2017.

Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, returns to nineteenth century London, seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. On the road to revenge Todd finds an accomplice in Mrs. Lovett, the owner of a failing pie shop, above which he opens his new barbershop. Todd's thirst for blood means than there is soon no shortage of raw ingredients for Lovett's meat pies and the people of London are lining up to try them...

Geoids' production aims to explore the story's Fleet Street roots and the role of sensationalism in the news and print industry in creating a character of Victorian melodrama.

Geoids' production will feature Thomas Isherwood, who recently appeared in the King's Head Theatre/Trafalgar Studios Olivier Award nominated production of La bohème, as Sweeney Todd and Maria Waters, who recently appeared in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Play for the Nation at the Barbican Centre, as Mrs Lovett. It will also include new costume designs by Lemington Ridley (2016 BroadwayWorld UK / West End Awards Nomination for Best Costume Design, Ragtime), a new production design by John Winters and is directed by Dom O'Hanlon with musical direction by Erika Gundesen.

Geoids Musical Theatre have recently been represented in London with productions of Top Hat, A Chorus Line, On the Twentieth Century, and the Central London amateur premiere of Sunset Boulevard, which ran at the Bridewell Theatre in October 2015.

The cast includes: Thomas Isherwood (Sweeney Todd), Maria Waters (Mrs Lovett), Freya Morgan (Johanna), Richard Upton (Anthony Hope), Paul Caira (Judge Turpin), Alan Scobbie (Beadle Bamford), Joe Brown (Pirelli), Barry O'Reilly (Tobias Ragg), Emma Morgan (Beggar Woman), Alex Covell, Will Howells, Kathryn Hyde, Harriett Jackson, Hannah Jones, Fiona Murray, Sandra Murray, Franciscus Prins, Conor Rooney and Chris Waiting.

Established in 1930, Geoids Musical Theatre is a leading London amateur theatre company that produces a varied programme of large productions, smaller cabaret shows and its famed 48-hour panto. Geoids seeks to deliver high quality shows for its audiences as well as a friendly and collaborative experience for its performers. Further information about Geoids is available at www.geoidsmt.co.uk.

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