Assassins

Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman take a searing look at our history and ideals through the eyes of those who, sucessfully or unsucessfully, assassinated the President of the United States. Structured as a surreal carnival sideshow, the piece weaponises American musical traditions – vaudeville, folk ballads, barbershop quartets, patriotic Sousa-style marches and Bacharach pop – to undercut the myth of the “American Dream,” exposing how frustration, alienation and entitlement can curdle into violence.