Peter Cook Quote

I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don't want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction – I can get all that at home.


Cartoon caption in the Observer, 8 July 1962


I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don't want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction – I can get all that at home.

I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don't want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction – I can get all that at home.

I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don't want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction – I can get all that at home.

I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don't want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction – I can get all that at home.