Who Moves Next? Theaters Push Goverments, Governments Push Back
Submitted by GIA News on January 7, 2011
(1-7-2011) On The Guardian theater blog, Andrew Haydon outlines recent government actions against productions and organizations in Hungary, Belarus, and Iraq, positing that the severity of the measures indicate that theater may, in fact, have world-changing capabilities.
He writes:
It's hard not to feel a sense of powerlessness (both ours and theirs) in the face of these attacks on theatre around the world. The spectacle of massive, often violent, state power being wielded against the arts is a bleak one. At the same time, there is something faintly optimistic in the idea there are still places that actually find theatre dangerous and subversive enough to think it's worth banning.
Read the complete blog entry here.