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Scandal on the Stage: Banned Theater in Boston
May 1, 2003
John D. Anderson professor, communications, Emerson
Matthew Chapuran managing director, Nora Theatre Company
Tom Connolly professor, English, Suffolk University
Maureen Dezell arts reporter, Boston Globe

This program includes vignettes of censored plays in Boston, beginning with the Puritan censorship of Morton's Maypole and climaxing with the 1929 banning of Eugene O'Neill's Freudian theatrical experiment, Strange Interlude. A panel discusses the performances, the historical ideas of censorship, and what forms censorship takes today.

Art & Architecture | History
censorship | Eugene O'Neill | Freedom of Speech | Maypole | puritan values | Strange Interlude | Playwriting | Drama | Law & Criminal Justice | Art History
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