TX school cancels field trip to "James and the Giant Peach" play because actors play both genders

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

A Texas school district canceled a field trip to see a performance of "James and the Giant Peach" after a single parent complained that actors were dressed in drag.

The parent raised concerns at a recent school board meeting that some actors were playing both men and women in the performance, saying that was inappropriate for children, and the Spring Branch Independent School District canceled the visit, reported KTRK-TV.

"Spring Branch ISD's pending field trips to the Main Street Theater performance of 'James and the Giant Peach' are being canceled due to concerns raised about the age-appropriateness of the performance," administrators told the TV station.

The play, which is based on the Roald Dahl book, is intended for children as young as first grade, and a spokeswoman for Main Street Theater said the parent who complained was wrong.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-school-cancels-theater-visit-over-one-parent-s-concerns-over-actors-in-drag/ar-AA1arguY

[NBachers]

1. Geez, I'm glad I got to see Mary Martin as Peter Pan without being terminally damaged.

[lapfog_1]

2. these people would have been highly disappointed in ancient Greek theatre

I guess they would have to go to the ancient Greek movies instead.

[Hekate]

3. One parent ruined the day out for all the kids.Why not tell the nutball to pull her kid out of class

… on that one day? Send her precious snowflake to another class for the day — for the love of all that’s sensible, when did school districts start running the whole educational program based on the whims of one (1) parent?

[Karadeniz]

4. I'm so sick of these lone complainers who dictate what the rest of the world can do. That parent

should have kept his or her kid home and left everyone else alone.

[Initech]

11. I'd be willing to bet good money that "parent" isn't a parent.

Just some random shit stirrer who's emboldened by Fox News and their local megachurch.

[Karadeniz]

16. HIGHLY possible! I forgot about the plants!

[RockRaven]

5. Name and shame. All of the parents of kids in that classroom deserve to know who ruined it

for their kids, as does anyone who might run into that cretin in their community. There is no reason for the complainer's name not to be front and center of every article about this matter. They "raised concerns at a recent school board meeting" -- well that is a fucking public meeting, ain't it? There's no secrecy involved. What was their fucking name?

[brettdale]

6. Geeze Louise

Some people have nothing better to do.

Heck The school here in New Zealand that I went to, got into slight trouble in the 1985.

There was two English classes, and it was the last week before school holidays, so
they combined the class, so we could watch movies all week, (since we were ahead of schedule)

It was what we called then, the fourth form. (we were 14-15 years old)

The movies were watch were.....

Blazing Saddles, Dirty Harry, Beverly Hills cop, and Animal House.

Until one parent complained.

[Abolishinist]

7. King Charles got it right, allowing woemen to play the woemens part.

The role of Desdemona, the devoted, loving wife murdered by her husband in “Othello,” wasn’t performed by a woman until 1660 – about six decades after Shakespeare wrote the play. This is because when Shakespeare was writing for the early modern stage, young men and boys performed all the women’s parts.

Numerous English theatergoers considered seeing women on the public stage for the first time a pivotal moment, including the civil servant and diarist Samuel Pepys. It was just one month after the first female actress played Desdemona that Pepys recorded “the first time that ever [he] saw Women come upon the stage.”

King Charles subsequently issued a royal proclamation to make it official: “Wee doe … permit and give leave That all the woemens part to be acted in either of the said two Companies for the time to come maie be performed by woemen.”

In 1899, Sarah Bernhardt performed as Hamlet.

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[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

13. pic from 1899?..whoa!

love it

[msongs]

8. guess who voted for the hooker loving serial adulterer who lies cheats and steals constantly?

[Initech]

9. Fucking morons!

[LoisB]

10. ONE parent? Ridiculous. The kids wouldn't even know what parts were being played by both

men and women. They probably wouldn't notice or care.

[no_hypocrisy]

12. FFS, Shakespeare was performed by men for all gender roles in the beginning.

Elizabethans survived just fine.

[ZonkerHarris]

14. all plays at the time. women were forbidden from such public behavior.

[royable]

15. Some boys or men palying the roles of women who masqueraded as men--Twelfth Night. n/t

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. It is tough living in Texas at times

Link to tweet

[lpbk2713]

18. The asshole parent did it for bragging rights.

So they could tell their Magat friends how they fucked up everyone's day trip.

[Johonny]

19. Pretty sure those parents could opt out without ruining it for everyone

But in Texas your most batshit neighbor dictates what you can do because that's freedom, right?