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THEATRE - SWEENEY TODD. Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Gate Theatre, Dublin. Until June 16.

There is an uneasy balance of humour and pathos in Stephen Sondheim’s musical Sweeney Todd. Part pantomime, part Gothic thriller, it constructs a coherent story around the ambiguous mythic legend of the barber turned butcher; a story that is as ridiculous as it is tragic.

Sondheim’s version of the tale is set in the afterlife, as Benjamin ...