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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Dennis Potter's 1976 work finds new life under direction by Matthew Parker.

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, 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 ...

It’s also there in Mary’s cure-all remedy of “A Spoonful of Sugar” vs. the “Brimstone and Treacle” favored by George’s childhood nanny Miss Andrew (Ruth Gottschall). The latter number, however, feels ...

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 ...