Play Furor Exposes Deep Rifts in Britain
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In the few days since a drama company in the Midlands canceled the run of a contentious play in the face of violent religious protests, British theater has been grappling with
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LONDON  - Hundreds of Sikh demonstrators caused thousands of dollars worth of damage when they stormed a theatre in central England to protest a play depicting sexual abuse and murder in a Sikh temple, a spokeswoman for the theatre said Sunday.
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S bitter internal feuding burst back into the open yesterday, with an angry spat between Peter Mandelson and allies of Gordon Brown, the Chancellor.
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Lest anyone think that a play with three ethnic slurs in its title is going to dance around the subject of race and the limits of tolerable discourse, be advised that the bombshells are hurled from its opening moments.
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Squabbling over who served tainted what to whom masks deeper rifts.
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Millions of Britons have a guilty secret. They are spending their spare hours immersed in an underground world of LA gangs and gun-ridden ghettos.
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âVitusâ places uncomfortable impulses in opposition, then dramatizes them in the most unchallenging way imaginable.
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What Tony Blair disarmingly calls his &quot;damn high wire act&quot; is getting shakier. The bridge between Europe and the United States has become a frayed rope in a tug-of-war match.
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TONY EASTLEY: There&#39;s a debate raging within the world of international soccer following last week&#39;s racist heckling by Spanish fans of black players in the English team.
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Paradoxically in a culture fixated on celebrity, the leading role in Britain&#39;s most successful sports team has gone to a man with an intense dislike of publicity.
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A disgraced politician, a pair of once-imprisoned lords and a convicted game-show cheat went to the theater in London this week.
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Author Salman Rushdie has said he was horrified by the government&#39;s response to Sikh protests that forced a play in Birmingham to be cancelled.
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Playwrights and comedians at the  world's largest arts festival have boldly marched into the  minefield of religious extremism this year to explode myths and  destroy taboos.
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Kick It Out, British footballâs anti-racism organisation, has drawn a direct link between Luis Aragonesâ comments about Thierry Henry and the racist chanting which marred Englandâs under-21 match against Spain last night.
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The early days of winter in the London theater scene have brought a wave of panto productions featuring balmy songs, bad puns and cross-dressers.
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London's Royal Court is considering staging a play which outraged Sikhs in Birmingham.
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Â· Conservative leader keen to avoid reigniting furore Â· Spokesman on Europe gets severe reprimand