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inappropriate subjects in year 5/6 play

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earlycomputers · 28/06/2014 15:55

Not sure whether to complain to the school but I have just seen an end of term play put on by the year 5's & 6's and there were scenes where the children were acting out being drunk with pretend glasses of wine, lewd conduct between a man/female scene (the woman who was married wanted to sleep with another man she found attractive and was making advances to him), and then there were scenes of stereotyping various nationalities in an exaggerated way - ie French wearing strings of garlic round their neck).
I know it's just a play and is hardly crime of the century, but it rankles with me that schools should be presenting a better moral example to such a young age group. I guess it's no different to acting out scenes of other drug taking or stereotyping races based on physical characteristics. I cant think of any benefit to encouraging young kids to act out such things and it wouldn't lessen the entertainment value of the play to leave them out.
And yes, play acting getting drunk wont necessarily lead to them becoming alcoholics, but I still think its better not to include such scenes.
Would you complain if you were me?

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Hakluyt · 28/06/2014 18:24

I wouldn't care for the racial stereotypes.....

ClashCityRocker · 28/06/2014 18:28

Is it Joseph? I'm going Joseph.

The drunk thing wouldn't bother me....the lewd thing would, if it was truly 'lewd' and not done in a way that would go over the heads of most 10/11 year olds.

I think you're probably reading too much into it, I must've seen every production of Joseph going as a kid and the whole Potiphar and his wife thing pretty much passed me by.

Hulababy · 28/06/2014 18:33

Lewd part on Joseph will be the bit with the wife trying to get friendly with Joseph - and why he ends up imprisoned.

Lewd bits in Oliver too. Also alcohol and drunkeness. And violence and murder, not to mention criminal activity.

EvilTwins · 28/06/2014 18:53

Not primary, but the last school play I directed featured an escaped criminal, prostitution, suicide and murder quite heavily. Next year's features murder and canibalism. All great fun. Grin

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