Eye-catching How the West End stripped for action

OH CALCUTTA!

1970-1980

Avant-garde revue with scenes of male and female nudity. Experts sent to the Roundhouse in north London by the courts judged it not to be obscene and it transferred to the West End.

NICOLE KIDMAN

The Blue Room, 1998

Kidman’s buttocks were seen on stage, prompting Telegraph theatre critic Charles Spencer to call the show “theatrical Viagra” that would “haunt my fantasies for months”.

DANIEL RADCLIFFE

Equus, 2007

Daniel Radcliffe made headlines when, at the height of his fame as the on-screen Harry Potter, he played a stable-hand who had an erotic fixation for horses and appeared on stage totally naked.