Platform Papers 10: Satire - or Sedition? - The threat to national insecurity (Paperback)

The introduction in late 2005 of the re-invigorated sedition laws provoked an angry response from a wide coalition of civil libertarians, authors, publishers, artists and performers, who saw them as an invasion of creators' right to social criticism. One of our favourite creators of satirical revue examines the state of theatrical satire in the light of these events, larding his argument with songs and sketches from the Wharf Revue for which he is famous.