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*'Attend the tale'…new contexts for Sweeney Todd*

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*Saturday 31 May 2008*

*Lincoln** School** of Performing Arts*

*Centre for Innovation in Performing Arts, University of Lincoln*





In the wake of Tim Burton's recent film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's
musical, *Sweeney Todd*, this symposium seeks to investigate how the legend
has been variously re-configured and re-contextualised through a variety of
media since its inception as an urban myth. Since George Dibdin-Pitt's 1847
stage melodrama based on the novel, *The String of Pearls*, the story of
'the Demon Barber of Fleet Street' has been adapted and appropriated in
various live performances, cinematic and televisual contexts. This symposium
aims to explore how and why the legend has captured the popular imagination
for over a hundred and fifty years and invites papers that will consider
topics such as: the process of adaptation, the relationship between urban
legend and performance as manifest in selected versions of the tale, and the
place of the story in the melodramatic imagination.



Abstracts of no more than 200 words in length may be submitted to Dr Kelly
V. Jones ([log in to unmask]) by Friday 25th April.

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