Woke theatre slaps trigger warning on Charles Dickens play as it features Victorian-era insults & sexism A THEATRE slapped a trigger warning on a Charles Dickens play — as it features Victorian-era insults and sexism.
Tory MP Sir John Hayes fumed: “Dickens is full of, by definition, Victorian slurs, because it was reflecting the language of working people at the time.
“To produce a vanilla-flavoured version of Charles Dickens’ work is to contradict the meaning of the writer’s work.
Audience members were cautioned that the adaptation of the 1839 novel Nicholas Nickleby contained “Dickensian slurs”.
The woke alert from Bromley Little Theatre, South East London, last night sparked scorn.
