Charing Cross Theatre, London: Philip Larkin was exaggerating: sexual intercourse did not begin in 1963. Nevertheless, the culmination of the Profumo scandal that year put sexual intercourse under the media microscope as never before. A court case exposed the louche goings on of politicians, diplomats and aristocrats, leading to the disgrace of John Profumo, the suicide of osteopath and promiscuous bon viveur Stephen…
SOURCE: The Stage at 06:20AM on November 7, 2013