The talking points of Brimstone and Treacle when it was made for the BBC in 1976 involved the devil, a rape, and the fact that we couldn’t actually watch the play – it having been banned by the Beeb’s ...

Dennis Potter’s Brimstone and Treacle is a bracing black comedy, an exploration of the nature of evil. But if the topic is murky, the play is not. It’s as straightforward, clean and ruthless as a pen ...

Infamously withdrawn from transmission by the BBC in 1976, Dennis Potter’s Brimstone and Treacle remains a shocking and divisive piece. Silver-tongued Martin inveigles his way into the home of Tom and ...

When Dennis Potter wrote Brimstone and Treacle in 1976, it was considered too shocking for TV. Originally it was commissioned as part of the ‘Play for Today’ strand. But Alasdair Milne, director of ...

PLAYWRIGHT Dennis Potter was dogged by controversy throughout his career - but as the sharpest of writers with a keen understanding of modern life, perhaps that was just how he wanted it. Since his ...

A middle-class couple is catastrophically affected by an accident which leaves their teenage daughter in a catatonic state. The situation soon changes when a mysterious young stranger arrives who may ...

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Brimstone and Treacle is Dennis Potter’s own Entertaining Mr Sloane but where the interloper in Joe Orton’s 1964 comedy draws the line at seduction, Potter’s notoriously extends to the rape of a brain ...

Brimstone and Treacle, Terrapin Theatre, at the Athenaeum Theatre. Dennis Potter’s play revolves around a British husband and wife who’ve never expressed the guilt, grief, or anger they feel after a ...

Drifter Martin Taylor (Sting) connives his way into the home of Thomas Bates (Denholm Elliott), an upright publisher of religious texts, and his devout wife Norma (Joan Plowright), who both care for ...