Theatre Censorship in Contemporary Europe (EPUB) von Anne Etienne

With contributions from an international range of scholars, this ground-breaking study explores the forms, contexts, and impacts of theatre censorship in twenty-first-century Europe.

Acknowledgements
Introduction Anne Etienne and Chris Megson

PART 1: FORMS AND SOURCES OF CENSORSHIP
Intervention 1 – Vicki Ann Cremona and Marco Galea, ‘Capturing Space: Crashing Down the Gates of the Maltese Utopia
Chapter 1. Milena Dragicevic Sesic and Aleksandra Jovićević, ‘Voices from Semi-peripheries: Pressure, Self-censorship, and Micropolitics of Resistance in the Western Balkans’
Chapter 2. Alex Trustrum-Thomas, ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes: Ideology and Censorship in Contemporary Russian Theatre’ 
Chapter 3. Anne Etienne and Lisa Fitzpatrick, ‘Risings and Cancelling: Implicit Censorship on a Free Irish Stage’

PART 2: GHOSTS OF THE PAST
Intervention 2 – Andrea Tompa, ‘Censorship in Hungary: Comedy, Silence, and Subversion’
Chapter 4. Denis Poniž, ‘Nothing New on the Eastern Front: Censorship in Contemporary Slovenia’
Chapter 5. Agnieszka Jakimiak, ‘Un-Divine Comedy. Remains and Self-Censorship as Work-In- Progress in Poland’
Chapter 6. Andrew Holden, ‘Opera Censorship in Europe – Production, Circulation, and Reception in a Transnational Market’
Intervention 3 – Lonneke van Heugten, ‘The Tenacity of Tradition: Performativity in the Dutch Black Pete Controversy’

PART 3: STAGING TABOOS
Intervention 4 – Roaa Ali, ‘Racialized Censorship in the Age of “Culture Wars”’
Chapter 7. Chris Megson, ‘Images of Protest: Religion, Theatre, and Censorship’
Chapter 8. Olga Kolokytha, Yulia Belinskaya, and Matina Magkou, ‘Religion and Politics: Silencing Greek Theatre in the Twenty-First Century’
Chapter 9. Duncan Wheeler, ‘Booing and Banning: Freedom and Prohibition in Spain’s “National Fiesta”’
Intervention 5 – Hannah Probst, ‘Play on the Periphery: Irrational Queerness as Resistance to Censorship in Gestalta’s Shibari Performance Art’