David Williamson's The Removalists, written in 1971 and now a standard part of school curricula, was to receive its Chinese premiere as part of an arts festival in Beijing. The playwright says that the official reason for the ban - which comes as relations between China and Australia are at a low point - was "that the language was too salty and that the play was too violent ... [But] there's some speculation that that mightn't have been the real reason. Because the play does depict police authority well and truly overstepping its mark, which is a sensitive issue here in China at the moment."
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