Homicidal rage against a corrupt world spews into the audience in Palm Beach Dramaworks' Sweeney Todd. But its singular spin is that the serial throat-slitting barber does not start as a vengeance-obsessed fiend. It it adds a dimension of, not forgiveness, but compassion to this cross between gleeful Grand Guignol and merciless condemnation of socio-economic inequity.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:48PM on July 15, 2017