Official censorship should not exist in university theatre productions. What censorship does exist is primarily unofficial--often unspoken--and consists of group, authority, and financial pressures on the director and the production staff, influencing them to avoid risks necessary for artistic growth and intellectual development. This sort of control is much less perceptible than objective/official censorship and much more pervasive and persuasive. Directors of theatre productions often overrespond and censor themselves too much. Directors, instead, should learn the importance of risk (invention, experimentation, exploration, and vision) in order to learn and test. When a theatre director omits these elements from the planning and execution of a production, that is probably the worst kind of censorship possible. (HOD)