Reviews: The Censor, and Voiceover: Cutting out the naughty bits

From: Scotland on Sunday | Date: November 24, 2002| Author: MARK BROWN | Copyright information

THEATRE/OPERA

THE CENSOR

Dundee Rep Theatre .

VOICEOVER

CCA, Glasgow

ON THE face of it, Dundee Rep's revival of Anthony Neilson's taboo- breaking drama The Censor and the Paragon Ensemble's experiment in modern opera, Voiceover, are very different creatures indeed. Look beneath the surface, however, and some remarkably similar themes emerge.

It's not just that both deal with the complexities of pornographic representation in the modern age; ther...