Part 1: Forms and Sources of Censorship -- Intervention 1: Capturing Space: Crashing Down the Gates of the Maltese Utopia / Vicki Ann Cremona and Marco Galea -- Voices from Semi-peripheries: Pressure, Self-censorship, and Micropolitics of Resistance in the Western Balkans / Milena Dragicevic Sesic and Aleksandra Jovićević -- The Emperor's New Clothes: Ideology and Censorship in Contemporary Russian Theatre / Alex Trustrum-Thomas -- Risings and Cancelling: Implicit Censorship on a Free Irish Stage / Anne Etienne and Lisa Fitzpatrick -- Part 2: Ghost of the Past -- Intervention 2: Censorship in Hungary: Comedy, Silence, and Subversion / Andrea Tompa -- Nothing New on the Eastern Front: Censorship in Contemporary Slovenia / Denis Poniž -- Un-Divine Comedy. Remains and Self-Censorship as Work-In- Progress in Poland / Agnieszka Jakimiak -- Opera Censorship in Europe - Production, Circulation, and Reception in a Transnational Market / Andrew Holden -- Intervention 3: The Tenacity of Tradition: Performativity in the Dutch Black Pete Controversy / Lonneke van Heugten -- Part 3: Staging Taboos -- Intervention 4: Racialized Censorship in the Age of "Culture Wars" / Roaa Ali -- Images of Protest: Religion, Theatre, and Censorship / Chris Megson -- Religion and Politics: Silencing Greek Theatre in the Twenty-First Century / Olga Kolokytha, Yulia Belinskaya, and Matina Magkou -- Booing and Banning: Freedom and Prohibition in Spain's "National Fiesta" / Duncan Wheeler -- Play on the Periphery: Irrational Queerness as Resistance to Censorship in Gestalta's Shibari Performance Art / Hannah Probst.
Summary:
"What are the contexts (political, social, legal, cultural) of theatre censorship in twenty-first-century Europe? Given the abolition of state-sanctioned and institutional forms of stage censorship in the late twentieth century, the prevalence of authoritarian and populist politics, and the escalation of so-called 'culture wars', in what ways and to what extent does stage censorship manifest and proliferate today? How does censorship respond (or not) to governmental, economic, moral, and religious circumstances? And how have theatre-makers in Europe contested or countered censorial prohibitions in the recent past? This edited collection is the first pan-European study of contemporary theatre censorship. An international range of scholars assess how new forms of censorship operate to silence artists and control performances; they explore how theatre artists respond to constraints placed upon their work across territories, and analyse how age-old political, religious, and moral taboos impact on theatrical creation and reception. Readers are invited to consider not only the varied mechanisms of censorship, including its more covert iterations, but also what is censored, when, how, and why, particularly in relation to the sensitive issues of religion, race, sexuality, and nationalism. By focusing on the work of key European theatre practitioners, as well as significant productions and performances, contributors reflect on the impact of censorship on artistic policies and cultural activity, and the forms of protest mobilized against it"-- Back cover.
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