Summary
Dennis POTTER's Son of Man caused a furore among church leaders and the Mary Whitehouse brigade in the late '60s as being blasphemous and subversive, epithets that seem a little overstated, given what has happened in the theatre over the intervening years. What might still be considered unusual, and possibly still unacceptable to the opponents of a female clergy, would be for Jesus of Nazareth and the disciples to be played by young women, as was the case in Chris Durnell's simple but lively production performed by Gwent Young People's Theatre at the Melville Theatre, Abergavenny.
As it happened, the device worked rather well, demanding an immediate suspension of disbelief on the part of the audience and an almost Brechtian sense of alienation that heightened concentration on the subject matter of the work rather than any sense of narrative realism.See the full content of this document
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Female View of Son of Man
Stylisation was central to the production as a whole, with its use o...
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