Arts: It's a Sin Next week a new play opens at the National Theatre which shows Sodomy on the stage. Should we be shocked, asks Mark Simpson, or has has one one of the greatest biblical crimes become just another artistic cliche?

The Independent - London | August 26, 2001| | Copyright

Buggery isn't what it used to be. In 1980 Howard Brenton's play The Romans in Britain provoked a scandal with its representation on stage at the National Theatre of the anal and oral rape of a young naked male Celt by Roman soldiers. The tabloids were apoplectic with sweaty-palmed rage and Mary Whitehouse, a self-appointed moral guardian of the time, brought a private prosecution against the play's director Michael Bogdanov for "procuring an act of gross indecency".

Twenty-one years later, in what might be interpreted as staged sodomy's coming of age, next week sees the opening, also at the ...

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