So, we’ve dealt with the issue of censorship when we read The Pillowman and we’ll be seeing it again this week with Family Stories: Belgrade. And hopefully some of you got the chance to go to the recent forum on censorship and Columbinus. It cannot be merely coincidence that so many plays that we are looking at deal with censorship. There seems to be something about theater that makes it a form that is often censored, as well as a form that often speaks out against censorship.
Here’s an article I found that talks about theater censorship in Belarus (not too far from Serbia). Also reminds us how lucky we are when it comes to our vastly more accepting environment in a college, in a liberal city, in the US.
