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 ...
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 ...