High school drama teachers complained to the New York Times about parents pushing back on controversial content in plays, linking the complaints to book bans.
Stevie Ray Dallimore, an actor who ran the theater program at a private faith-based boys’ school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, said three plays were rejected one year because of gay characters, cross-dressing, and adultery themes. He said the pushback reflected a"concerted" censorship effort.
Teachers complained that plays that were acceptable in recent years are now controversial in certain parts of the country. A playwright who had been writing for high school students for the past thirty years told the Times he had to reject a Florida high school's request for him to remove a gay couple from his play. It sent a"terrible message" to the gay kids in the theater program, Stephen Gregg said.which found 67 percent of drama teachers said that censorship concerns influenced what titles they chose.
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