Romford Rose continues at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch until 18 June. Rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Romford Rose is a dramatic story that contrasts the life depicted by country music with the real events we face each day; a situation that in old movies would have ended in a western style shootout is […]
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Interview – Sweeney Todd writer Christopher Bond on his latest show, Romford Rose
CHRISTOPHER BOND is probably best known to theatregoers as the playwright of the 1970 version of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street that pumped new blood into George Dibdin Pitt’s bloody melodrama (“It needed a heart transplant, not a facelift,” says Bond) and inspired Stephen Sondheim to create his musical magnum opus six […]
Christopher Bond’s country musical Romford Rose to open at Queen’s Hornchurch
Playwright Christopher Bond’s new country-tinged musical Romford Rose will debut at Hornchurch’s Queen’s Theatre at the end of this month. The show from the writer whose 1970s play Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is widely acknowledged as the inspiration for Stephen Sondheim’s hit musical, will play the Queen’s from 27 May until […]
