The Romans in Britain

The Romans in Britain is a stage play by Howard Brenton that comments upon imperialism and the abuse of power. A cast of thirty actors play sixty roles. The play was first staged at the Royal National Theatre in 1980, and subsequently...

In this article: Imperialism, Michael Bogdanov, Samuel West, Mary Whitehouse, Sheffield, Crucible Theatre, and Royal National Theatre

...Birmingham Rep and the Belgrade in Coventry. From 1970 to 1984 he was at the National Theatre, appearing in Howard Brenton's The Romans in Britain, and playing Azdak in Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Friar Lawrence in Romeo and...

In this article: Cheek by Jowl, Nottingham, National Theatre, John Mortimer, Touchstone, DH Lawrence, and Harold Pinter

...Greene and Evelyn Waugh and The Third Soldier Holds His Thighs (2005) on Mary Whitehouse's campaign against the Howard Brenton play The Romans in Britain. He has also written episodes of the television version of the BBC sitcom Absolute...

In this article: Mark Lawson, BBC Four, The Guardian, BBC Radio 4, University College London, The Universe, and John Sutherland

...- The Queen opens the Barbican Centre. An obscenity trial brought by Mary Whitehouse against the National Theatre concerning the play The Romans in Britain ends after the Attorney General intervenes. An Argentine scrap metal dealer...

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...in 1988. His became well known acting for the defence in the celebrated English criminal trials of Oz '', ''Gay News, the ABC Trial, The Romans in Britain (the prosecution brought by Mary Whitehouse), Randle & Pottle, the Brighton bombing and...

In this article: Geoffrey Robertson, Augusto Pinochet, Kathy Lette, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Sydney, New South Wales, and Brighton bombing

...Bogdanov was charged with producing an act of gross indecency between two actors in his National Theatre production of Howard Brenton's The Romans in Britain. The early 80s panic about imported "video nasties" was infected with the notion...

In this article: Max Mosley, News of the World, Serious Fraud Office, 1959 Obscene Publications Act, and JavaScript

...all on stage, the play is not in the same league as others that push the boundaries of theatrical nudity, such as Howard Brenton's 'Romans in Britain' Naughty but nice is probably the best way of describing the nudity in Calendar Girls,...

In this article: West End, London, Romans in Britain, Patricia Hodge, Gypsy, Julia Hills, and Living Theatre

...had it so good") is sympathetic to the conservative leader, which is surprising: Brenton, the author of such fiercely political plays as "The Romans in Britain," "Weapons of Happiness" and (with David Hare) "Pravda," has long hurled bricks at...

In this article: Jeremy Irons, Never So Good, The Real Thing, Harold Macmillan, New York Post, New York, and World War II

...time to discuss her ideas. Unlike her or Greene, we didn't believe in censorship. Her last battle came as late as 1980, when the play The Romans in Britain at the National Theatre featured a simulated rape of an ancient druid by the...

In this article: Mary Whitehouse, Hugh Carleton Greene, Late Night Line-Up, Gay News, Julie Walters, Injunction, God, and Bank Holiday Monday

...Center that will slip on the personas of, among others, George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell. Through July 20. 19 -- "The Romans in Britain," Howard Brenton's sprawling historical epic, first performed in London in 1980,...

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