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Fearless Milk Crate Theatre Carriageworks, Sydney September 13-22 $35, $25 www.milkcratetheatre.com Milk Crate Theatre director Mirra Todd says his main goal is to get people thinking and talking about homelessness. 鈥淎ll theatre is about starting a conversation,鈥 the wiry, animated Todd tells 91自拍论坛 at Milk Crate鈥檚 rehearsal rooms in Sydney鈥檚 Kings Cross.

How does political censorship work in liberal societies? When my film, Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia, was banned in the United States in 1980, the broadcaster PBS cut all contact. Negotiations were ended abruptly; phone calls were not returned. Something had happened. But what? Year Zero had already alerted much of the world to the horrors of Pol Pot, but it also investigated the critical role of the Nixon administration in the tyrant鈥檚 rise to power and the devastation of Cambodia.