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 ...

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 ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

The Police wound up recording a version, but it was left off Zenyatta Mondatta and ended up on the soundtrack to the 1982 film Brimstone And Treacle, in which Sting co-starred. (It was also included ...

IN England many people have no faith in simple remedies with simple names such, for instance, as brimstone and treacle; but make the same materials into a jam, disguise its flavour, and call it, say, ...

The best of them are 1985’s Dreamchild (from the BBC's Alice, 1965) and Track 29 (1987), which he adapted from the BBC's Schmoedipus (1974). The latter was one of Potter’s "visitation" plays, in which ...

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 ...