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Past Events

The Institute of Ideas and Soho Theatre present
The Right To Be Offensive
does anything go in the arts?
Date: March 30, 2005
Time: 9pm
Tickets: £5 (£3 concs)
Booking: Call Soho Theatre on 0870 429 6883

A Round Table Rumble on censorship and creative licence following the controversies over Behzti, the play that closed in Birmingham following protests by Sikhs, and the screening Jerry Springer the Opera on BBC television.

Panel:

Dominic Cavendish
Daily Telegraph theatre critic, and founding editor theatreVOICE
Nick Cohen
the Observer
Johann Hari
the Independent
Munira Mirza
researcher in cultural policy, University of Kent
Ben Payne
associate director, Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Rachel Wagstaff
Young Writer for the Royal Court and Soho Theatre

Chair:

Dolan Cummings
Institute of Ideas, editor, Culture Wars