nick
December 10th, 2009, 06:29 AM
lol, I so love this story...
Parents have complained after a primary school turned its Handsel and Gretel pantomime into a tale of hooded yobs who terrorise elderly neighbours before causing criminal damage to the gingerbread house.
The play sees the brother and sister duo, who in the original are abandoned by their family and fall into the hands of a child-eating witch, recast as violent thugs.
Instead of the wicked witch, it is a defenceless elderly woman who owns the gingerbread house and she is devastated when the evil pair wreck it.
Halfway through the 90-minute performance Handsel and Gretel are arrested and jailed for criminal damage to the gingerbread house, but they are allowed out on licence before the end of the play.
Teachers at Keresley Newland Primary School near Bedworth, Warks, say the play was rewritten by teacher Jordan Risebrow to highlight modern issues of bullying and anti-social behaviour. It was part-funded by Warwickshire Crimebeat. a charity aimed at raising awareness of social issues in schools.
Full story here (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/christmas/6771711/Parents-complain-over-yob-version-of-Handsel-and-Gretel-pantomime.html)
Parents have complained after a primary school turned its Handsel and Gretel pantomime into a tale of hooded yobs who terrorise elderly neighbours before causing criminal damage to the gingerbread house.
The play sees the brother and sister duo, who in the original are abandoned by their family and fall into the hands of a child-eating witch, recast as violent thugs.
Instead of the wicked witch, it is a defenceless elderly woman who owns the gingerbread house and she is devastated when the evil pair wreck it.
Halfway through the 90-minute performance Handsel and Gretel are arrested and jailed for criminal damage to the gingerbread house, but they are allowed out on licence before the end of the play.
Teachers at Keresley Newland Primary School near Bedworth, Warks, say the play was rewritten by teacher Jordan Risebrow to highlight modern issues of bullying and anti-social behaviour. It was part-funded by Warwickshire Crimebeat. a charity aimed at raising awareness of social issues in schools.
Full story here (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/christmas/6771711/Parents-complain-over-yob-version-of-Handsel-and-Gretel-pantomime.html)