'Sweeney' Comes with Goth Edge ; Darker, Stripped-Down Version
The Washington Times › March 05, 2004
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Center Stage artistic director Irene Lewis daringly eliminates most of the Victorian era and music hall trappings that dominate many a production of Stephen Sondheim's Grand Guignol masterpiece, "Sweeney Todd." She opts instead for something darker, sleeker and altogether more vampiric.
With its queasy yellow fluorescent light casting sickly shadows on the actors' faces, the stripped-down and mobile set and the slashes of scarlet and yellow paint splashing the floors and walls of the Head Theater, Miss Lewis' "Sweeney" has a Goth-punk edge that owes as much to The Cure as it does to Bertolt Brecht.See the full content of this document
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'Sweeney' Comes with Goth Edge ; Darker, Stripped-Down Version
The emphasis on blood and sex and gnawing need puts you pleasurably in mind of novelist Anne Rice's purplest prose.
Sondheim purists might squawk, but those with open minds are in for a show that puts over th...See the full content of this document
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