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Simon Callow: Plays, protests and the censor’s pen
Spring 2016 cover When I was at drama school in the early 1970s, there was a middle-aged Iranian on the directors’ course called Rokneddin. He’d been ejected from the Shah’s Iran for staging...
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Student reading list: theatre and censorship
Order your copy of the Staging Shakesearean dissent here. Order your copy of Index on Censorship here To mark the release of the spring 2016 issue of Index on Censorship magazine Index has compiled a...
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A global guide to using Shakespeare to battle power
Kemel Aydogan’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Turkey. Credit: Mehmet Çakici Hitler was a Shakespeare fan; Stalin feared Hamlet; Othello broke ground in apartheid-era South Africa; and...
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Borderless Bard: Shakespeare as a bingo addict
Poet Edin Suljic was inspired to write My Mate Shakespeare after a recent trip to his home country My Mate Shakespeare The first time I met Shakespeare, he looked nothing like himself, nothing like...
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Staging Shakespearean Dissent: plays that protest, provoke and slip by the...
Order your copy of the spring issue of Index on Censorship here. Saturday 23 April marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. The Bard’s work has long been used to tackle difficult or...
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Turkey’s thought-provoking playwrights, actors and directors have little...
Enough is Enough is a play formed as a gig, tells the stories of real people about sexual violence, through song and dark humour. It is written by Meltem Arikan, directed by Memet Ali Alabora, with...
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Call for Afghan actors, writers and film-makers to be given safe passage
Afghan performers: Credit: UNESCO/Michel Ravassard More than 80 leading lights from the worlds of film and theatre have signed an open letter to The Times calling on the British government to give...
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Censorship is still in the script
Ralph Fiennes in Beat the Devil. Photo: Manuel Harlan In June 2015, a national newspaper in Britain started a campaign to have a play banned. This surprised me for two reasons. One: clearly no one had...
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“I wrote a play then lost my home, my husband and my trust”
Turkish playwright Meltem Arikan I am a woman kicked out of Heaven. I am a writer tried for treason, facing life in prison. I am an exile defined as others. I am autistic, pushing myself to be normal....
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Bunker Cabaret: From the bomb shelters of Kyiv to Somerset House
You are handed a piece of paper as you enter the room. Move around, come up close, move away, sit down, do what you want; it instructs. All it asks is you be present together (and, naturally in the...
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