Was Mary Whitehouse wrong about everything?
Maxine Peake as Mrs Whitehouse: deserves to tour
Helen Murray
The moral crusader was not all bad
The Last Stand of Mrs Mary Whitehouse
NOTTINGHAM PLAYHOUSE
A world premièrein Nottingham is promoted with a poster mashing up the faces of the actress Maxine Peake and the morality campaigner Mrs Mary Whitehouse (1910-2001). A smart strategy, because younger theatregoers will recognise Peake from Hamlet on stage and The Village on TV, while older ones will have lived through her character’s public crusades against sex and violence on television and stage and in print.
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