Canceling the stage production told LGBTQ students 'you’d better sit down in the back of the class and shut your mouth,” playwright Paula Vogel said.
, which was a lightning rod for political controversy last year. But a Duval County Public Schools spokesman said last week the play was axed because it"contains adult sexual dialog that is inappropriate for student cast members and student audiences" and that the choice had nothing to do with any legislation.
“I’d like to point out that high schools do this play and there have been no incidents, and it’s up to the director and the students. If they don’t want to kiss on stage, then let them hug. I don’t police stage directions. I don’t police my script. And if a high school wants to produce one of my plays and change the F word to fudge, I don’t care,” Vogel says.
“So, yes, I think that this is an easier issue as a way to police the sexuality of their students and to say to gay, lesbian, bi, queer, and trans students, you’d better sit down in the back of the class and shut your mouth,” she says.
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