A theatre company staging a production called ‘The Family Sex Show’ in Bristol and Bath have cancelled the performance because of ‘unprecedented threats and abuse’.
The controversial show aimed to educate young people and children as young as five with their parents about the human body and sex, and included an element when some of those on stage took their clothes off in what the production company described as ‘a non-sexual way’.
But the production incurred the wrath of the likes of Mumsnet, the Daily Mail and Laurence Fox’s Reclaim Party, who launched a social media campaign against the production and the theatres staging it. A petition launched calling for the show to be scrapped collected more than 38,000 signatures, and a campaign on social media saw the two theatres in Bristol and Bath - the Tobacco Factory Theatre in Ashton Gate and The Egg Theatre, which is part of the Theatre Royal in Bath - targeted.
