On the University of Utah campus, there was a performance of the 30 year old play Deathtrap, which includes a murder and also a rather chaste, single kiss between two men at the end of act 1.
A woman, who had taken her teen age son to see the play, left "disgusted and infuriated" at intermission. She later wrote to the theater saying that they should have provided a "content advisory" in the publicity that divulged the "repulsive content."
The theater's managing director wrote her back:
"You object to the kissing, but not to the fact that they’re murderers? You are comfortable with your son witnessing an enacted murder, but not a same-sex kiss? In both cases, it’s just make-believe, but how is a play that depicts murder, whether it’s a contemporary murder-mystery like 'Deathtrap' or an immortal tragedy like 'Macbeth,' morally acceptable while the depiction of a fairly innocuous, albeit same-sex kiss, is totally unacceptable?"Let's hope this mother gives a little thought to her moral values and to her parental responsibilities. And let's hope the teenage son has someone else in his life who can provide a less narrow-minded, restrictive role model.
Ralph
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