Mrs. Lovett

With the acting, directing, stage setting, and technical roles the show truly felt as though it was not in one place but rather many. Now for the characters the brought the production alive. Miss. Lovett played a major role as she was the instigator of the drama. At first seeming innocent Miss. Lovett turns out to be wicked and driven by love, love that she would do anything to have. She creates the master plan to get Sweeney to murder those who enter his barbershop so then she can take the murdered

has interesting scenery would be one hour and twenty-two minutes into the recorded production. The scene is of Mrs. Lovett’s restaurant; her restaurant is packed with people as Toby serves the guest meat pies. Mrs. Lovett’s restaurant has an antique look to it. She has a wooden wall that has a faded green color painted on it; against the while is a chest, poster, and a door. Mrs. Lovett, herself standing next to a white bar like table, it is very high. She also has a barrel being supported by some

daughter in as his ward and he keeps her there at his house. Mrs. Lovett recognizes him as the barber Benjamin Barker and reunites him with his razors from long ago, to which he refers to as “my old friends”. Mrs. Lovett tells Todd that business is poor at the shop and soon afterward, Todd begins killing people by slashing their throats. Now driven by rage and revenge, he plots the murder of the Judge in his every thought. Mrs. Lovett loves him and does whatever she can to protect him. Business picks

turn and decides that all people deserve to die: the wealthy for their sins and corruption and the poor to be taken out of their misery. Thus ends the first act of the play. Fast forward, weeks after the events that just occurred, Sweeney Todd and Mrs.

a false charge, leaving Lucy to fend for herself and their young daughter. Through the story of Mrs. Lovett, a woman struggling to sell her meat pies coined as “the worst pies in London”, Benjamin learns that the corrupt judge lured Lucy to his home and raped her. Exeunt Benjamin Barker and enter

from Sweeney Todd. These murders also helped Nellie's business come back to life. It all started out when Sweeney murdered Pirelli (aka Daniel O' Higgins) after he blackmailed him. Sweeney was planning to secretly dispose of the body later on, but Mrs. Lovett had more ambitious ideas. And thus, she began to use the bodies of Sweeney's victims as meat in her meat pies. And boy, did those pies bring in money. Knowing that Lucy was still out

Introduction to Sweeney Todd “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” was originally a melodramatic gothic horror story written by the British playwright Christopher Bond. The play was inspired by the penny dreadful “The String of Pearls: A Romance” by George Dibdin-Pitt who introduced the character Sweeney Todd. In 1973, Stephen Sondheim had the opportunity to watch Christopher Bond’s “Sweeney Todd”. Sondheim found the production “charming and creepy” however it was not scary. He was inspired

and although mainly used threatening language he remained with the parameters of the law. Diversion continued constantly throughout the movement between Lovett and O’Connor and by 1840 the movement had effectively split into three factions, although they all wanted the same outcome they still differed on the best way to achieve their goals. Lovett wanted improvement through education, O’Connor developed his disastrous land reform and Robert Lowery led temperance Chartism. Historians would believe

In stark contrast, to Roderick’s recklessness towards Christina, James shows Mrs Light’s ardent devotion towards her daughter, whom she once regarded as, a “very ugly baby; for the first two years I could hardly bear to look at her…” (208), and such dedication is the direct result of a religious revelation that, in fact, Christina is profoundly beautiful. Mrs Light’s about-face concerning Christina’s prettiness, she conveys to Rowland as a mythological tale in which she sees “a little girl of four

Chapter Page # Summary of the Episode (3-4 sentences) Relevance/Analysis (3-5 sentences that answer 1 or more of the guiding criteria) Significant Quotation (supports character development) Quote Page # Chapter 6 Pages 46-47 Jane starts a conversation with Helen, a student who was flogged without reason. She can’t understand why Helen would bear the pain and not rebel. Jane’s rebellious nature can be seen in this passage. She has a hostility towards violent authority. This is most likely caused