After the abolition in 1968 of theatre censorship in Britain, Travers was for the first time able to write about sexual matters without discreet allusion or innuendo.

It opened on 20 April 1927 as a members-only club for the performance of unlicensed plays, thus avoiding theatre censorship by the Lord Chamberlain's office.

As a result, she often experienced resistance from strict theatre censorship which dogged the rest of her career.

The opening night was delayed until the abolition of theatre censorship in England under the Theatres Act 1968.

There was the provocative invention of Early Morning, banned by the Lord Chamberlain - an act that played a big part in the end of British theatre censorship.

In 1912, Courtneidge joined several other theatre managers in opposing an attempt to abolish theatre censorship.

He is the author of some fifty plays, among them Saved (1965), the production of which was instrumental in the abolition of theatre censorship in the UK.

The succès de scandale of the two plays helped to bring about the abolition of theatre censorship in the UK.