[news] Rachel Corrie play banned in New York

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Katharine Viner | March 1, 2006 | The Guardian

The decision by a New York theatre to cave in to pressure over our play shows how the scope for free debate has narrowed

[...T]he director of the New York theatre told the New York Times yesterday that it wasn't the people who actually saw the play he was concerned about. "I don't think we were worried about the audience," he said. "I think we were more worried that those who had never encountered her writing, never encountered the piece, would be using this as an opportunity to position their arguments." Since when did theatre come to be about those who don't go to see it? If the play itself, as Mr Nicola clearly concedes, is not the problem, then isn't the answer to get people in to watch it, rather than exercising prior censorship?

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