Review: Unsafe is Sook-Yin Lee uncensored - whether you like it or not GlobeArts
What’s safe to say or put on a stage in these allegedly timorous times? Quite a bit, as it turns out., Sook-Yin Lee’s entertainingly out-there documentary performance about censorship and its various speech-stifling siblings at Canadian Stage, the former CBC Radio host and MuchMusic VJ gleefully breaks a number of taboos that once might get a theatre shut down in Toronto.
Russell expanded the idea and brought on Lee as a collaborator – but the two quickly clashed over the form of what they were creating. She doesn’t understand his need to have control over a subject through fiction; he doesn’t think interviews are art., we see these arguments and other behind-the-scenes power struggles as if they are happening in real time on stage.
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