The Brass Butterfly Elizabeth Kay and funny feast for the

and funny feast for the imagination

lie-weaving

we've been walking its streets and impulsively arresting its citizens for decades

born to fail

or much in humankind itself

The Brass Butterfly Elizabeth Kay and funny feast for theCommissioned by the leading actor Alastair Sim (1900 1976) The Brass Butterfly was Goldings only original stage play. Starring Sim himself, and also the popular actor George Cole, it opened for a provincial pre West End run in Oxford in early 1958 and premiered at the Strand Theatre in London in April. In his biography of Golding, John Carey describes it as a comic scherzo dealing with the conflict between science and religion, transposed to the Greco