Public Record Office: The day an Iron Curtain almost fell on Shakespeare's saucy scenes PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE Newly released documents reveal a `respectable' IRA chief, ministers' plans for an island asylum and how the Royal Shakespeare Company defied protests by a Communist regime

From: The Independent - London | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: s by Chris Gray and Dan Gledhill | Copyright information

A RACY Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream was the cause of a diplomatic crisis when it toured behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, the Public Record Office reveals today.

The heat generated between the characters of Bottom and Titania alarmed the socialist commissars of Romania with its "Western sexual permissiveness and moral decadence" to such an extent that they demanded changes to the production during its tour of Eastern Europe.

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