Entertainment 21-12-2004 who: Birmingham Stage Company chief Neal Foster what: Says decision to cancel Sikh play was "cowardly" where: BIRMINGHAM when: Yesterday snippet: After the city`s Repertory Theatre dropped Behzti, which depicts murder and sex abuse in a Sikh temple, Mr Foster rued "one of the blackest days for the arts in this country that I`ve ever experienced." "The story cannot end here," he told BBC News Online. "I will be willing to produce the play in Birmingham. I haven`t been quite so angry and appalled at a decision by an artistic body in my whole life." The Independent wants you to make up your own mind, so the offending scene is published in full. [... more]

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