AMATEUR THEATRE "Brimstone & Treacle"
Thursday 1st to Saturday 3rd November 2007 - 8.00pm
Presented by The Sheringham Players
Dennis Potter was a mass of contradictions as a writer and in Brimstone and Treacle all his paradoxical drives come fruitfully together. Written for the BBC in 1975, the play was recorded but banned from the TV screen by the then Director of Programmes who found the work brilliant but nauseating.
This clever and highly-controversial play concerns Mr. and Mrs. Bates, a dull, middle-aged couple whose only daughter, Pattie, has been reduced to a vegetative state following a hit and run incident two years previously. Suddenly into their lives comes a polite, helpful, clean-cut and possibly satanic young man who wheedles his way into the Bates' trust by claiming he was a very good friend of Pattie's before the accident, with horrific and startling results.
Suited to an adult audience only.
Tickets Thur £6.50. Fri &0Sat £7.00