'Woke' theatre issues trigger warning for Victorian-era insults in Charles Dickens play A theatre has been criticised for issuing a 'woke' trigger warning on a Charles Dickens play, alerting audience members about its Victorian-era insults.
Bromley Little Theatre's production of Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby comes with content warnings about its use of Victorian-era 'slurs'.
Bromley Little Theatre in south-east London is giving the guidance alongside its new adaptation of the author's 1839 novel Nicholas Nickleby - saying it contains 'Dickensian slurs'.
The cautions to audience members were shared on Bromley Little Theatre's websites.
Conservative MP Sir John Hayes said: 'Dickens is full of, by definition, Victorian slurs, because it was reflecting the language of working people at the time.
