Credits from Brimstone and Treacle (Chapter One).

The opening credits of the Dennis Potter drama Brimstone and Treacle.

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• treacle
• dennis
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[podgytube]

Thanks so much for putting up this original. So much better than the sting version. Never thought I would see it again. Where did you find it and you only 20?

[3replybiz]

@trickstick84 You can't explain why they showed the play in 1987. I would say that better educated people, not conditioned to rudely say 'nonsense' like some tabloid-reading robot, watched it and did not react in a limited at stereotyped way and saw the play as being a valid creative work. The rape scene wasn't real. People like you react to things on the TV as if they are as shocking as reality. Drama means you can pretend, nothing shocking was visible. Why be shocked by a mere idea then?

[trickstick84]

@3replybiz What nonsense. Any normal reasonable person, when shown a scene of a disabled girl being raped, would say "That's disgusting". That was the reaction of Alastair Milne, the BBC's Director of Television, when he saw the recording, and that is why he stopped the broadcast.

Like you, I have watched the "Did You See" documentary on the DVD, and it was noticeable that even the people you would expect to be well-disposed to Dennis Potter, found it very difficult to say anything positive.

[3replybiz]

@trickstick84 B&T was made in 1976 and not shown until late 1987. The reason for this was not the portrayal of a rape, but the treatment which religious sentiments are given. Dennis Potter spends the whole play running down religion, the sickly nasty portrayal is what would really have offended, but he gave them a throw-away excuse to be offended in the rapes. Even the Devil does some good compared to what religion can achieve, he purges the husband of his fascism & actually unites the couple.

[trickstick84]

@3replybiz Nonsense. The most unpalatable part of this interesting drama is surely the rape (actually, there are two of them), especially as the act is treated as a joke.

[3replybiz]

I remember when they showed this for the very first time on the BBC in 1987, something like 11 years after it was made. Don't watch the Sting version if you want all the meaning removed substituted with Sting's shit acting. Most amateur critics of this play say that it was banned for the portrayal of sexual abuse of a disabled person, the real reason is for the sickly sweet, meaningless and portrayal of shallow religious sentiment. This would have offended a lot of people in the 70s.

[lildernit]

thanks for posting!

[TAfan2]

Thank you so much for uploading this!!

[MythofDemocracy]

Thanks for posting this.

Along with 'Blue Remembered Hills' it remains my favourite Denis Potter play.