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Playwrights Ban Performances in South Africa Over Color Policy
Forty-eight prominent playwrights including Graham Greene Arthur Miller John Osbourne and J B Priestley sign a public declaration backing a ban on performances in any theatre that practices racial discrimination. The Anti-Apartheid Movement seeks to extend the clause internationally, with two initial refusals but broad support from major authors and ongoing hopes for more signatures.
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London
South Africa
Graham Greene
Arthur Miller
John Osborne
J. B. Priestley
Arnold Wesker
Barbara Castle
M. Jean-Paul Sartre
France
Samuel Beckett
Robert Bolt
Shelagh Delaney
Dauphne du Maurier
Jonathan Miller
Iris Murdoch
Harold Pinter
C. P. Snow
Muriel Spark
Angus Wilson