“Free speech can make for uncomfortable listening. Do we have an ethical responsibility to censor the problematic? Or is addressing difficult issues through culture effective in our recognising of right and wrong’

I’ll be discussing this with…

Jo Clifford (Chair) is the author of a 100 works in every dramatic medium that have been translated into multiple languages and performed over the world. Her play The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven was touring Brazil continuously for three years, but the present repressive climate means it’s too dangerous to be performed there. 

Nesrine Malik is a British Sudanese columnist and features writer for the Guardian. She was born in Sudan and grew up in Kenya, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Alongside her journalistic career she previously spent ten years in emerging markets private equity. She was named Society and Diversity Commentator of the Year at the 2017 Comment Awards.

This debate is part of a series of discussion events inspired by Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It and Measure for Measure.”

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Venue: Barbican Centre
Address: Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS
Tickets: £10 / book here