Birmingham Rep has announced a new cast member to star in its highly anticipated upcoming production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Award-winning radical entertainer, Meow Meow, will play the iconic part of Mrs. Lovett and joins previously announced Ramin Karimloo who stars in the title role. Meow Meow’s unique brand of subversive and = sublime entertainment has hypnotised, inspired and seduced audiences worldwide from London’s West End to Carnegie Hall, to the Hollywood Bowl, to the Sydney Opera House. Her original music theatre works have played from Berlin to Berkeley, to Edinburgh to Shanghai and have been presented by David Bowie, Pina Bausch and Mikhail Baryshnikov amongst others.

Meow Meow’s theatre credits include Titania (Emma Rice’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare’s Globe), Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls (Royal Philharmonic at Royal Albert Hall), La Maîtresse – a role created for her in Michel Legrand and Kneehigh’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg on London's West End, Jenny in Die Dreigroschenoper and more.

Further casting and full creative team will be announced in the coming weeks.

Wrongfully imprisoned for 15 years, Benjamin Barker returns to Victorian London as the mysterious barber, Sweeney Todd. Upon finding out he’s lost everything he ever loved, Sweeney swears revenge and so begins a chilling tale of murder, macabre and Mrs Lovett’s pies.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street comes to The Rep from Saturday 4 July – Sunday 9 August and tickets are on sale now. To book, visit birmingham-rep.co.uk