Absolutely right, McG, this is nothing to do with religion. It's about hypersensitive clerics whipping up their flock in a crude attempt to bully a theatre into self-censorship. If the sexual violence had been set in a classroom, with a teacher as the protagonist and a pupil as the victim, no-one would have batted an eyelid.

I'm delighted that the Birmingham Repertory Theatre is holding its ground, where many others would have caved in, and has refused to change the location to a community centre.