The companies Los 90 Producen and La Mandanga Producciones have used their social networks to denounce the “censorship” suffered by the Quintanar de la Orden City Council (Toledo), which has decided to remove the show ‘How difficult it is’ from the programming, scheduled for next January 27 through the Castilla-La Mancha Theater Network, alleging that “actors appear in underwear.”
According to the producers’ story, the cancellation has been communicated in writing by the Councilor for Culture, María del Carmen Vallejo, alleging that the appearance of the actors in their underwear “could scandalize the public.”
As they argue, the play takes place in a dressing room while the characters are changing. “Evidently, they appear in their underwear. If the play took place in an arena, they would be dressed in lights. And you have to have very few lights to censor something that has not been seen. Our show has been performed before more than 3,000 spectators with an audience of all kinds, including school groups, as it deals with current and profound topics such as bullying, suicide or sexual diversity,” they add in their testimony. “We have never received a complaint and we are not aware of anyone being scandalized.”
This veto “represents an attack on culture, a mechanism for a ruler to prevent others from seeing what bothers her or simply does not like, which uses public money, from everyone, to carry out a work of authentic indoctrination in concepts , that do not value, retrograde and expired”.
“No one today can be scandalized by seeing someone in underwear or a swimsuit. It is a mere excuse to prevent the freedom of expression that guides the work. This cancellation also represents an insult to the residents of Quintanar de la Orden, since the money with which our show was going to be paid for came from a subsidy from the Community Board of Castilla-La Mancha, and it could not be allocated to any other performance,” they lament.
