Seminar: Religion, Blasphemy and the Theatre (2/2)

4th November 2006

 

SEMINAR: RELIGION, BLASPHEMY AND THE THEATRE (2/2)

Second excerpt from the keynote lecture given by Dr Steve Nicholson, Reader in 20th Century and Contemporary Drama at Sheffield University. Discussion held at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond. Sam Walters hosts and reads extracts.

In the mid 1960s an MP was contacted by his local church querying why the Lord Chamberlain didn’t allow the appearance of a deity on stage.