An unprecedented hat trick of evenings at the theatre concluded with this piece. Little did we know when we booked it that this to be a highly controversial play.
Here’s a newspaper clipping from the following day:
Corpus Christi Fatwa 30 Oct 1999, Sat The Daily Telegraph (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com
Perhaps we should have known, as apparently it had been hugely controversial when first produced in the USA a couple of years earlier.
In truth, we didn’t think all that much of the play and production.
Nicholas de Jongh in The Standard liked it:
corpus de Jongh Standard 29 Oct 1999, Fri Evening Standard (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com
No-one else seems to have reviewed it. The other papers seemed obsessed with news of the play’s controversy rather than the play itself, which is a a shame.
I recall that we rather liked the Pleasance Theatre but not its location.
We had been traipsing around that day, having been to the City for a do (neither of us can remember) and then a stop off to see some oriental art at the British Museum before The Pleasance. Would we have the energy for all that 25 years later? Would we have the energy for a hat-trick of evenings at the theatre?
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