Editor's note.

Occasionally theatre causes trouble (Jean Schiffman's report on page 68 about a program of banned and censored plays at San Francisco's Magic Theatre provides some startling examples), but usually it doesn't. In most parts of today's world, even when a theatre event runs sharply counter to society's prevailing norms, nobody makes a fuss.

That's because theatre rarely packs any political muscle--the audience is so limited and the experience so esoteric, conventional wisdom has it, that the status quo is safe from the form's protestations or persuasive powers. Nevertheless, theatre ...

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