At the beginning of Brimstone And Treacle (1976), interspersed with the action, the screen shows two quotes. The first is by Kierkegaard: “There resides infinitely more good in the demonic than in the ...

Martin really does seem like a nice young man; such a caring smile, and beautiful manners, too. "You speak so beautifully, Martin," says Amy Bates, "almost as if you were Patience Strong." To Amy, who ...

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 ...

This article is brought to you by our exclusive subscriber partnership with our sister title USA Today, and has been written by our American colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the view of The ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Infamously withdrawn from transmission by the BBC in 1976, Dennis Potter’s Brimstone and Treacle remains a shocking and divisive piece.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 ...

Dennis Potter regarded this as his best play. But be prepared for unrelenting bleakness, and the darkest of laughs: a scoop of the blackest treacle. London has been enjoying an unofficial season of ...

A young woman, bed-ridden and gaga after a hit-and-run accident, and in need of round-the-clock care. Two parents, at their wits’ end, stuck in a sort of living death themselves: the mother worn-out, ...

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 ...

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 ...