The target audience, remember, includes pre-teen children.
As the organisers make crystal clear: 'This is a show for everyone. The Family Sex Show was due to open this month in at least seven theatres, from Norwich to Bristol, but had to be cancelled following a backlash, with more than 38,000 people (ordinary mums, dads, aunts, uncles, grandparents, for the most part) signing a petition calling The Family Sex Show 'profoundly irresponsible and wholly inappropriate'. They say the effect will not be 'educating children', but rather prematurely sexualising them. The cast of up to eight performers, however, are determined that the show must go on - after all, they have the money. They will perform to an invited audience at the Theatre Royal Bath, it has been announced, at a date yet to be decided, 'ahead of subsequent public performances'. So, despite widespread condemnation that the content is unsuitable for children, The Family Sex Show could - if the organisers get their way - end up playing at a theatre near you.