Some language and violence to be found in a children's play, I must say
The British have no idea what's right for children (Hat tip: Tammy Bruce):
And seeing how much more the current nuts put in here, well...they really show how bad off the UK really is.
A production of Cinderella aimed at children has cut a scene in which a character is called a "fat bitch" after shocked audience members walked out during previews.You'd think good news prevailed here, right? Think again:
But the word "slut" and a scene involving violence have not been dropped from the festive "family play" showing at the Lyric theatre in Hammersmith.This sounds even more than just faithful to the Brothers Grimm rendition of the old fairy tale, which Charles Perrault did much better. The Grimms just plain demonized and devilized the whole thing, and today, I'm shocked that their fairy tales were ever considered worth giving to children to read.
Cinderella is billed by the theatre as "the only show to see this Christmas for everyone seven plus".
One mother, who went to see the play with her eight-year-old daughter and her schoolfriends, said she was "horrified" by the "gratuitous violence".
She told the Standard: "We were expecting fairy godmothers, pumpkins and mice - not violence, bloodshed and swearing.
"One of the girls in our group was in tears. I had to calm my daughter down, too. She was traumatised by a scene in which birds peck the eyeballs out of the ugly sisters.
And seeing how much more the current nuts put in here, well...they really show how bad off the UK really is.
Labels: londonistan, misogyny, Moonbattery
