Theatre: Lovett at GenFest, Royal & Derngate

Royal & Derngate Guildhall Road, Northampton

“Where was God when Mrs Lovette needed him?” Newly-widowed Mrs Lovett needs to find a way to survive. Using skills learned from a whaler father, a courtesan mother and a butcher husband, Eleanor “recalibrates” her life – and her relationship with God. An original story set before her infamous partnership with Sweeney Todd, we discover what would later lead her to turn pie-maker. You may think you already know Mrs. Lovett, but this new play explores what made her: the […]