Censorship battles once focused on books, but today the performing arts are under attack, especially works that mix drama and documentary. David Edgar argues that free speech must be preserved if artists are to be protected from a witchhuntWhen Edmund Morris is commissioned to write a biography of Ronald Reagan, he invents a schoolfriend for the president, with his own name, from whose perspective he can describe the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:28PM on May 12, 2016