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Theatre: Sweeney Todd
Updated Sweeney Todd makes uneasy transition to Thatcher era
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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
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JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
Sweeney Todd
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
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