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AIBU?

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DD14 GCSE drama trip to see play.

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eragon · 22/05/2013 14:19

In local public halls.
However, teacher didnt investigate play content, and so whole class sat and watched four naked men, masturbating, and the a woman also naked, in a rape scene.

during the play drama teacher apparently made some comment on the generous nature of one males lower equipment, and laughed in a hystrical manic way.......

I am not a prude, nothing wrong with a naked body,(in fact local public hall is a bloody cold place) but the group masturbating and rape scene for a group of 14yr olds?

No. am so not impressed with this......so AIBU?

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eragon · 22/05/2013 16:02

teacher was misled by public hall , which promoted the play by contacting and offering tickets as suitable for school.

teacher horrified by play apparently.

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haggisaggis · 22/05/2013 16:05

It wasn't an am dram thing by the looks of it - it was a professional tour here

OddBoots · 22/05/2013 16:36

Just seen the tour dates, given where it was I can imagine that quite a fuss will be made. Eep!

jacks365 · 22/05/2013 16:42

When dd1 was doing gcse they had a trip to watch hamlet ( or macbeth not sure now). All booked and arranged then we got a letter home saying we could withdraw our children if we wished and receive a refund as they had discovered the production contained full frontal nudity. They only found out because another teacher at the school went to see it and reported back.

WilsonFrickett · 22/05/2013 16:43

But did the teacher not check out the content first? There's enough on that promo link to give me cause to check a bit further before booking tickets. TBH not least the particularly nasty quote from the Coyote Ugly review to the left of the page.

LaurieFairyCake · 22/05/2013 16:48

If anyone had taken foster dd to see naked penis's in a play SS would have intervened

There aren't words for how inappropriate this is.

Mrsrobertduvall · 22/05/2013 16:52

Its previews were at the Cockpit Theatre

Tabliope · 22/05/2013 16:55

Sorry to doubt you eragon. I have a 14 year old too so I can imagine how you feel. Hope none of the kids are in shock (or the teachers) and that you can laugh about it in time. It started off in the Cockpit theatre and then went to Chipping Norton. I'd have loved to have been in the Chipping Norton theatre to see what the reviews were.

TigOldBitties · 22/05/2013 17:00

So what did your DD think of it?

Floralnomad · 22/05/2013 17:05

Fair enough but that doesn't explain the comment and laughing by the teacher during the play and also why did she not make them leave when it became obvious that it was not suitable content . I'm sorry but 'we were misled ' would not be a suitable answer from the school IMO.

soverylucky · 22/05/2013 17:10

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Wishiwasanheiress · 22/05/2013 17:34

I would also contact other parents. The school might try to shrug off as just u being upset. I'd check who else is and if nec coordinate.

That teacher is a bit dense isn't she/he?

Giggle78 · 22/05/2013 17:35

Well....(5 years drama teacher 5 years Head of Department here)..

On one hand Spring Awakening is an important drama in this history of theatre as it broke all sorts of boundaries and taboos.

It is quite famous though - how many years has your drama teacher been teaching? Is she a newbie who's just made a mistake?

Also there is some teen programme/film where they put on Spring Awakening as part of the film. (I have a vague memory of this so don't know which one- I think it could be 90210). Maybe the teacher saw that sanitised version and thought it would be suitable.

I have to say something similar has happened to me. I just was really glad I was with sixth formers and no one from the younger years. There was nothing in the write up about this new play that made the explicit content clear. You can't always view the production/read it before making a choice.

So the teachers made a mistake. That is clear. All you can go on now is how is she dealing with it? Has she contacted you all to say this happened? Did she remove them at the interval? Or is she hoping it will just go away?

Picturesinthefirelight · 22/05/2013 17:47

Is it Spring Awakening? I've seen it and it is a famous and excellent play (or musical). It's very relevant to that age group as its about the consequences of a group of teens not being given the facts of life.

However it sounds like this oarticular theatre company chose to be quite graphic in its portrayal. When I saw it the sex and mastication was certainly implied but all under cover, I saw no flesh.

WilsonFrickett · 22/05/2013 17:51

I would also add that I don't think it's a parent's responsibility to google a school drama trip and check the content, quite surprised at the number of posters who would do that. Surely you trust the school - alright, on this occasion they got it wrong, but I don't think the OP should bear any responsibility for that.

ZolaBuddleia · 22/05/2013 17:55

It's a famous play when you study drama, which presumably is why she thought it relevant. The famous thing about it is the circle jerk, if nothing else she should have known that.

ZolaBuddleia · 22/05/2013 17:57

She must have been mortified.

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