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{{Display censorship incident
|ongoing=no
|year=1995-2005
|region=North America
|artist=Donovan King
|subject=Political/Economic/Social Opinion, Religion, Violence
|confronting_bodies=The Department of Drama and the Office of Graduate Studies at the University of Calgary, Alberta
|medium=Performance Art, Theatre
|date_of_action=January 2002
|location=University of Calgary, Alberta
|description_of_content=A great description of the meta-play is explained by Dr. Ropes in this article in [http://thefileroom.org/documents/dyn/DisplayCase.cfm/id/413 The File Room]. In the style of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat Schrodinger's Cat], a meta-play is both alive and dead or neither. The meta-play, much like the works of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Artaud Antonin Artaud], is meant to extract the inner workings of the audience's mind.
|description_of_incident=Some of the meta-play was submitted to the faculty online. This resulted in a letter from [http://thefileroom.org/documents/dyn/DisplayCase.cfm/id/413 Dr. Robert Mansell, Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies] forbidding King from sending any more of this project to anyone else in the academic environment. The work came off as threatening and the faculty strongly suggested he seek psychological help. He was then forced to drop his Directing major, and his supervisor dropped him as his student.
|description_of_result=Donovan King wrote a [http://thefileroom.org/documents/dyn/DisplayCase.cfm/id/413 letter] to the Alberta Human Rights tribunal. He received his MFA in Theatre Studies (not Directing) from the university and continues to provoke the theatre world.
}}