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Does anyone know of any examples of theatre productions being censored? e.g- I know that Hair was risquee and involved nudity, but was it actually censored?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.it wasn't actually censorship as such in that no ruling body said you can't show it. However, it was a form of self-censorship when that Birmingham theatre recently said it would no longer show that controversial play (I can't remember the name, but it was about violence in a Sikh household) because of the huge amount of protests it caused.
If a mob forces a play to be removed could that be considered censorship? Discuss!
Censorship by the Lord Chamberlain was re-established after the (Beggar's opera- colloquially known quite gratuitously as the b*ggers opera
because the then prime minister (the first and of course he was not known as prime minister for another 150 years) Sir Robert Walpole was protrayed on the stage and satirized.
DId this mean that box office receipts went up? It sure did. The Beggars opera was produced by Rich and Gay.
And the wags (remember this was around 1720) went around saying it made Mr Gay rich, and Mr Rich, gay.
Gay is obviously being used in the C18 sense