Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Riverside Community Players, Riverside4 dates

Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street - A Melodrama by C.G. Bond Note: this is NOT the musical version Warning: Show contains Mature Themes Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1973) by C.G. Bond is a non-musical, full-length melodramatic play that modernized the 19th-century "penny dreadful" tale. It introduced the revenge motive—Benjamin Barker returning to right wrongs against his family—that inspired the later 1979 Sondheim musical.