The Code

Stage vets Tracie Bennett and John Partridge star in this Hollywood-set thriller from prolific US playwright Michael McKeever. It’s 1950 and sharp tongued screen legend Tallulah Bankhead calls in at the house of her friend, screen idol-turned-decorator Billy Haines. Then high powered agent Henry Willson comes around to visit, in what would appear to be a drama about closeted sexuality during Hollywood’s golden age, an era where the Hays Code forbade any depiction of homosexuality whatsoever. Christopher ‘We Will Rock You’ Renshaw directs.