Cancelling a ‘racist’ play, Knox College embraces orientalism

Published November 15, 2017 7:10pm ET



At Knox College, a theater production of The Good Person of Szechwan has been cancelled after being ruled offensive.

Written by a German marxist in the early 1940s and performed in top theaters across the world since then, The Good Person of Szechwan considers morality through a prostitute’s struggles in a rural Chinese community.

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