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Review clearing Manchester's Royal Exchange of censorship criticised

by Lanre Bakare Arts, Culture Correspondent

A modern retelling of A Midsummer Night's Dream was pulled last September in a dispute over one of the play's songs A review into the cancellation of a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream after a censorship row has been criticised by a major arts union for avoiding "deeper accountability". The play had been due to run at the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester in September last year but was pulled in a dispute o…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 7:42pm on March 11, 2025