Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Behind the net curtains: Michael Kitchen and Michelle Newell in Brimstone and Treacle, filmed in 1976 - Everett Collection/Alamy ...

Dennis Potter's 1976 work finds new life under direction by Matthew Parker. Written as a television play but never broadcast due to its disturbing plot, it was finally produced at the Sheffield ...

This is not to say that Amelia Sears’ revival at the Arcola Theatre is a curio, a token review of a cause célèbre. If Potter was a provocateur that might be the case, but the writer was never merely ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rupert Friend is currently starring in a rare revival of Dennis Potter’s Brimstone and Treacle, which opened last week (8 May 2012, previews from 2 May) at the Arcola Theatre.

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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 ...