Plague Over England captures the spirit of the nation in the early 1950s when the press, judges, and politicians were describing homosexuality as a cancer on society, an epidemic and even a threat to national life. Plague Over England is an extraordinary insight into the dramatic changes in social attitudes to gay life in Britain over the last fifty years.
The play is based around the controversial conviction of Sir John Gielgud - for persistently importuning men for immoral purposes in 1953.
Plague Over England is more than just a dramatization of a scandalous event in one actor's life, this new play shows how Gielgud's arrest played a small but distinct part in the battle to make homosexuality legal in Britain
