ABSTRACT
In January 2009, the play Stitching by the Scottish author Anthony Neilson was banned in Malta by the Classication Board for Film and Stage. Initially, no reasons were provided for the ban. It was only after the company insisted on knowing the motives and the issue captured the attention of the press that these were nally supplied, eleven days after the ban was imposed.1 One of the board members found the play ‘degrading of the human person’ and felt that it ‘grievously offends all that has been considered, and is still considered, “sacred” in human dignity, both socially and historically’ ( Muscat 2009: 3).
