Culture Ministry slammed
Former senator Kraisak Chonhavan called on the Culture Ministry yesterday to clarify its threatened censorship of the opera "Ayodhya" as he prepared to discuss with the artists' network how to prevent it.
Kraisak said the ministry's reason not to allow demon-king Thotsakan's death on stage as it broke tradition and would bring bad luck to the country was outrageous.He said he and many artists won't accept the censorship of "Ayodhya", composed and directed by Somtow Sucharitkul. What the ministry did was controlling not promoting culture, he said. It also threatened artistic freedom. Somtow said he had informed the ministry the script would be modified slightly, but before the show premiered he received a letter from the ministry saying it might send security officers to shut it down if it was different from "decent literature".
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