A THREE Little Pigs show has been given a trigger warning that the dad gets eaten by the Big Bad Wolf. Parents buying £10 tickets for three-to-seven-year-olds blasted the “patronising” message. The alert was put on Chichester Festival Theatre’s website under “content and themes” and warns the 172-year-old story “has a passing reference to Father Pig being gobbled by the Big Bad Wolf.”. Tim Scott, of The Freedom Association, said: “This nonsense is all too typical of taking life far too seriously.
“I say hands off. This is a well-known children’s story that adults should leave alone.”. Dad Vaz Sayed, 52, added: “I have two daughters and find it incredibly patronising that theatres feel the need to warn parents about something so trivial. “It’s laughable, and less of the Big Bad Wolf and more the Big Bad Woke!”. Acting great Sir Ian McKellen has previously slammed “ludicrous” trigger warnings in productions.
Actor Simon Callow has said theatre is “not a pulpit, but a gymnasium of the imagination”. Chichester Festival Theatre previously came under fire for a Sound of Music trigger warning over Nazi Germany. It has since taken down the Wolf alert from “content and themes” ahead of the December production after we approached for comment. A spokeswoman told us: “Because that line is in the main description as a basic plot point, it was unnecessary to flag it again. So the latter instance was removed.”.
