The String of Pearls: A Romance

The original story of Sweeney Todd, adapted from the original Victorian 'penny dreadful' story specially for Otley Community Players.

Performed 7th - 9th December 2007, at Otley Courthouse, to coincide with the Otley Victorian Fayre.

Click here for a copy of the programme.

A terrible stench at St Dunstan's church.

rs Lovett's pie shop

'You are getting dissatisfied, therefore I will explain your position. You are a prisoner..."

Mr Todd teaches Tobias a lesson

'Mercy! What the devil do you mean by mercy? You have come to the wrong shop for that, we don't keep it in stock here, and if we wanted ever so little of it, we should have to go somewhere else for it.'

Tobias at Peckam Rye madhouse

Todd takes on a new apprentice

Captain Rathbone of the Indian army accompanies Miss Arabella Wilmott to the office of illustrious magistrate Sir Richard Blunt

Sir Richard Blunt, in disguise, about to discover the horrible truth