... a series of reports and commentary on recent incidents of theater censorship and suppression from around the world, arranged roughly according to chronology. Contributors include Theater magazine staff as well as artists and scholars from around the world, including Howard Barker, Freddie Rokem, Mike...

...Richard Beacham Copyright © Theater 1998 1998 RICHARDBEACHAM SEX, CENSORSHIP, AND SUt!O??Ze IN 1968: OR,“I’M NOT ALLOWEDTO TAKEMY CLOTHESOFF!” The old believe everything; the middle-aged...

...Praise Zenenga Praise Zenenga's article navigates the long and troubled history between Zimbabwe's theater artists, and national government and local police strongmen. Zenenga uses the Zimbabwean Censorship and Entertainment Control Act of 1967 as his departure point and compartmentalizes...

...John Houchin In this article, John Houchin, author of Censorship of the American Theater in the Twentieth Century, continues his exploration of censorship and its social ramifications. In censorship battles throughout history, debates may have been addressed in two or three newspaper articles, only...

...Marina Davydova Marina Davydova impugns what she calls a “total conservative revolution” in Russian culture. Self-censorship has rendered censorship superfluous, she argues, as reverence for fossilized classics forbids their transformation or modernization. Her polemic traces the cult of the past...

...Miriam Felton-Dansky In this article, Miriam Felton-Dansky outlines recent debates over censorship and controversial theater in an international context. She describes the history of Western free speech debates since the fall of Communism, delineates recent scandals such as the uproar over Behzti...

... argues “are not undergirded by any realistic or logical basis,” but instead use hollow dictums to intimidate artists into self-censorship, despite the Constitutional ban on official censorship. After publishing his critique of Medinsky’s “enchanting utopia,” Vyrypaev and his artistic home, Teatr.doc...

...Liviu Malita; Tom Sellar Tom Sellar interviews Romanian theater scholar Liviu Malita, who has recently unearthed records of theater censorship during Ceau escu's communist regime. Malita discusses his research at the Archive of the General Directorate for Press and Printing (DGPT...

...John Freedman John Freedman surveys the trends and important events in Russian theater from 2010 to 2015. Freedman pays particular attention to how changes in Russia's increasingly conservative political climate and cultural policy have resulted in increased censorship of, decreased funding...

... lesbianism as an embattled identity, but in 1992, Hughes completed a new play about racism, No Trace of the Blonde. And she continues the task of extricating herself and her work from the distorting notoriety that surrounds the censorship crisis. Copyright © Theater 1993 1993 No Trace...

..., was changes in communist Eastern Europe, conceived in Poland at a time of the most acute Hubner was a cunning tactician in his dealings political censorship (halfway between the cruel with power. suppression of the Gdansk uprising in 1970...

... nevertheless, with the aid of history and the Lord Chamberlain's office(sl, the deed has been done. For if the production of Hair, a novel and self-consciously iconoclastic piece, provides the occasion of the Censorship's demise, the non-production of the wildly bizarre Salome in July, 1892, provided...

... Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2008 Theater Tom Sellar, Editor yale school of drama yale repertory theatre volume 38, number 3 editor  Tom Sellar coeditor, Censorship and Contemporary Performance Miriam Felton-Dansky associate editor Alex Grennan managing...

... The Crimson Isle has been narrowly read by critics in aesthetic and political impulses of Socialist Realism were both the East and the West as a satire on political very much in the air when The Days of the Turbins was censorship. Like Bulgakov’s unfinished novella The produced. As Anatoly...

... by or confronted with alien or unfamiliar perspectives at live performances, where there can be no channel-changing. Is the word “censorship” still adequate to describe what suppresses certain ideas and forms of expression on stage? Or do we need new or additional descriptors, given the range...

..., and filtering their social networks — increasingly believe they have a “right” not to be offended by or confronted with alien or unfamiliar perspectives at live performances, where there can be no channel-changing. Is the word “censorship” still adequate to describe what suppresses certain ideas...

... established directors, actors, and set design- ers continued to follow aesthetics they shaped under the constraints of the communist regime’s censorship and defended the values of both Stanislavsky’s acting system and the model of large state theaters’ receipt of 90-percent funding by public sources...

...: Have any of your plays been censored, or threatened with censorship? Hofstra: We censored Megan Terry's Comings and Goings ourselves. Besides, it's not a matter of censorship; it's a matter of good taste. Yale: How do you choose what courses you'll take? Los...

... of media often cannot. The plays featured in Criminal Queerness Festival are frequently autobiographical, providing deeply personal insights into the lives of queer individuals in repressive environments. These stories unfold as acts of resistance, defying censorship and criminalization through artistic...

... is nevertheless vic- timized by self-censorship, by a voice from within that urges her to remain silent, despite the fact that the need for artists and intellectuals to bear witness is as urgent now as it has ever been in Russian history. The actor and director Youri Pogrebnichko, like Sadur, can...