“Woke” activists will stop at nothing to inject their left-wing agenda into books, movies, classrooms, among other things. This extends to theater productions, as well.
This week, a play that opened in London, England had to be temporarily paused after several audience members felt unwell during a graphic scene depicting abortion, according to several outlets.
Staff at the Almeida Theatre in Islington, north London suspended the production of “The Years” on Monday after audience members required “assistance” over the abortion scene.
According to The Independent, “The Years” is a drama based on Nobel prizewinner Annie Ernaux’s 2008 autobiography “Les Années.” The play brings a woman’s “personal and political story to life, set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing post-war Europe.”
“The Years” reportedly depicts a self-conducted, at-home abortion. This is what caused the play to be halted (via The Independent):
During its Monday preview, one male audience member reportedly indicated that he was feeling faint with others nearby waving over staff for assistance. The man was then taken to the theatre’s front bar area. After which, a handful of others said they, too, were feeling woozy.
In a statement to several outlets, the theater said, “The performance on Monday of ‘The Years’ was stopped for 10 minutes so that our front of house team could provide care for an audience member who required assistance. During the stoppage, care was also provided for three other audience members. All audience members were quick to recover after brief assistance.”
The Independent noted that during the pause, an audience member shouted that the scene “was a disgrace” and that “there was no warning.” Actors reportedly said that there were “warnings about the abortion.”
“The Years” first opened in Amsterdam in 2022.
“It really details how difficult it is, as a woman, to understand your body as belonging completely to yourself,” actress Romola Garai said. “Particularly as a young woman, I definitely did not understand that. I thought that my body was the property of the society that I lived in. I didn’t really understand that it belonged to me, and that I could dictate its size and shape and what went into it and what went out of it, food and sex and all of it. And I don’t know, actually, that women definitely do feel that any better now.”
