Letter: Alec McCowen's rendition of St Mark's Gospel was utterly enthralling
Michael Billington recalls that he was "bowled over" by the performance of St Mark's Gospel given in 1978 by Alec McCowen. So too were very many of us, including a group of Anglican worshippers from deepest rural Oxfordshire who saw McCowen at the Mermaid theatre, in London, that year.What made the performance particularly remarkable was the religious context of the period. Biblical criticism had recently taught us "…