Performances of a controversial stage production called ‘The Family Sex Show’ have been cancelled following ‘unprecedented threats and abuse’. The show aimed to educate children as young as five about the human body and sex, and featured full-frontal nudity.
The production angered various groups including Mumsnet, and actor Laurence Fox’s Reclaim Party, who launched a social media campaign against the production and the theatres staging it. A petition calling for the show to be scrapped collected more than 38,000 signatures, and a campaign on social media called for theatres in Bristol and Bath to ditch performances, reports BristolLive.
Initially, in a joint statement, the Tobacco Factory Theatre in Bristol and The Egg theatre in Bath defended the production, by Norfolk-based ThisEgg. That statement said the show was ‘a fun and silly performance about the painfully awkward subject of sex, exploring names and functions, boundaries, consent, pleasure, queerness, sex, gender and relationships.’
