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 Tickets £16 (£12 concessions) Saturday Matinees 12, 19, 26 May; 2 June £12 Preview Performances 2, 3, 4, 5 May Rare Reading Wednesdays A series of post-show readings of other little-known Potter plays with specially invited guests: 9, 16, 23, 30 May (reading will be post show, starting at 9.45pm) Post Show Discussions 14, 28 May Pay What You Can Tuesdays (tickets in person from 6.30pm – limited and subject to availability) 020 7503 1646 | SEArED in association with Arcola presents BRIMSTONE AND TREACLE by Dennis Potter Directed by Amelia Sears Design Alex Eales Lighting Richard Howell Sound Elena Pena Cast: Rupert Friend Matti Houghton Tessa Peake-Jones Ian Redford "All I want is the England I used to know… When you knew where you were and all the houses had gardens and old ladies could feel safe in the street at night." Rupert Friend stars in the first major London revival of Dennis Potter’s most controversial play. Renowned for being banned before transmission by the BBC, Brimstone and Treacle’s glimpse into suburban paranoia, xenophobia and insularity is as revealing and relevant today as it was in the 1970s. North London, Summer, 1977. As a nation prepares to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s Silver Jubilee, a middle-class, middle-aged couple struggle to come to terms with the incapacitation of their daughter following a hit-and-run car accident. Out of nowhere, an apparently respectable young man arrives on their doorstep to change their lives forever... A twisted allegory about fear, faith, morality, and the incomprehensible randomness of good and evil. To Help fund the production please click here |