Show Plot Sweeney Todd, Demon Barber of Barbary Coast

Authors: Tim Kelly

Time Period: The 1800s (19th-century gold rush / Victorian-era crossover)

Setting: San Francisco, California—specifically moving across the backdrops of the Barbary Coast, Chinatown, and Nob Hill, as well as local city jails and orphanages

Summary:

Sweeney Todd (Demon Barber of the Barbary Coast) transplants the infamous Victorian London villain into late-19th-century San Francisco, where Sweeney runs a lucrative barber business, robs his clients, and pursues local political ambition and marriage alongside his partner in crime, Mrs. Lovett.