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...biggest surprise in the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s production of Sweeney Todd, directed by Cary P. McClelland ’02, is not the post-apocalyptic set or the reframing of the story as young Tobias’ narration, but the reinvention of Sweeney Todd himself...
...plot moves towards an inevitably tragic conclusion, strange alliances form, as between Sweeney and Lovett—who realize a gruesomely efficient way to capitalize on the barber’s growing bloodlust and Lovett’s need to add “something special” to her failing pie business...
Therein lies the true horror of Sweeney Todd. Though the play’s tragic ending is itself disturbing, the fact that the audience sympathizes with the perpetrators of such bloodshed is exponentially more disturbing...
That’s not to say, though, that McClelland has not put great thought into his conception of the show. Regarding McClelland’s approach to the production, Sweeney himself (Benjamin D. Margo ’04) said, “He’s not treating the play as if it’s too precious, not like something that he has to do the way other people have done...
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