Connecticut High School Bans Student Play on Iraq War

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 This is from today's show of Democracy Now

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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
Connecticut High School Bans Student Play on Iraq War
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Administrators at Connecticut’s Wilton High School have banned students from performing "Voices in Conflict", a play about the Iraq war, calling it "sensational and inappropriate." We speak with the play’s director, as well as two students involved in the production. We’re also joined by Iraq war veteran Charlie Anderson, whose story is depicted in the play.
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Two weeks ago, audience members packed into an off-Broadway theater here in New York to watch the curtain go up on an unusual production - a high school play about war. The play, called “Voices in Conflict,” was performed by students from Wilton High School in Connecticut. The reason they were performing it on a New York stage instead of the school auditorium? Their high school principal had banned it.

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* Bonnie Dickinson. Has taught theater at Wilton High School in Connecticut for 13 years. She is the director of the play “Voices in Conflict.”

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