Abstract
Shortly after sending an ‘open letter’ to the Soviet authorities protesting against censorship in the theatre, the leading Lithuanian avantgarde stage producer, Jonas Juraŝas, was dismissed from his post as Director of the Drama Theatre in Kaunas in September 1972. (His open letter was printed in Index 1/1974.) For two years he was unable to work in his profession; then, in December of last year, he was suddenly granted permission to emigrate and now lives in Munich with his wife, a writer and editor, and their six-year-old son.
This is a shortened text of an account of his long battle with the censors, given in an interview with the Chicago Lithuanian-language daily, Draugas, published on 25 January 1975.