Tooting Arts Club to stage Barbarians following Sweeney Todd

Tooting Arts Club will revive their own production of Barbarians by Barrie Keeffe at the former Central Saint Martins School of Art building in Soho. 

The temporary venue is being launched in collaboration with Emily Dobbs of Jagged Fence Theatre. 

Barbarians opens on 3rd October (previews from 29th September) and runs until 7th November 2015. A limited number of tickets will be available at £10 for under-26s, students and the unemployed.

Keeffe said: "I’m delighted that Barbarians is going to St Martins. It’s the perfect home for it. When I wrote Barbarians I was trying to capture that energy of punk on the stage, so to have it performed at such an important building from that time is very exciting. 

Tooting Arts Club’s Sweeney Todd transfers to Shaftesbury Avenue!

It has been announced that Tooting Arts Club’s acclaimed production of Sweeney Todd is to move to a new home on Shaftesbury Avenue this spring whilst Harrington’s Pie and Mash Shop undergoes refurbishment. 

The pop-up pie shop success story started last October when Tooting Arts offered up lovelorn Mrs Lovett’s infamous pies in a grisly, site-specific production of Stephen Sondheim’s most famous musical in SW17. Audiences met in the local barbers before being led into London’s oldest, functioning pie-shop, established in 1908 and complete with original Victorian décor.

Whilst the Lovetts’ Victorian home is out of action Tooting Arts will recreate the interior of the beloved Harrington’s, meticulously building an exact replica on Shaftesbury Avenue to house the show, the first pop-up musical to come to Theatreland.