Brilliant Writing Or Just Reactive?

[inksplotter]

Do you think the writer of this showed creative spirit? It does need to be talked about, but Jim Fixit is a terrible name. Banning a play is usually an honour, hopefully it can be performed somewhere else.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/junior-school-calls-off-school-play-featuring-character-based-on-jimmy-savile-9556186.html

[cassa333]

How long ago did they chose the play?

[Prudie]

Further searches suggest the character was actually called Will Fixit. Were I a drama teacher, who'd ordered an already used and acceptable play and I saw that name in the cast list list would it jump out at me as 'shocking'? No it would not.
where does it all stop - should we ban children from using glitter?

[kvalidir]

Yeah that's a good idea Prudie, especially if their name is Gary :)

[inksplotter]

I'm saying that these things should be shown in plays, toned down a bit. We always did plays about not taking sweets from strangers.

[inksplotter]

Surely Will Fixit a perfectly acceptable name for a caretaker?

[Prudie]

Err, I'd have thought so.

[woofgang]

inksplotter, this play has NOTHING to do with paedophilia......The name is a coincidence that one child picked up on. The school went "oops" and withdrew the play end of story.

[inksplotter]

But if it's Will Fixit it's not a coincidence, it's a nickname for someone who will fix things. Maybe he used Jimmy Savile catchphrases, but even that I'm beginning to doubt.

[kvalidir]

I'd stop worrying about it if I were you, it seems you can see more to this than I can, but even so it's not important.

[Baldric]

///The play was last performed four years ago, before the truth about Savile emerged///

[kvalidir]

I'm beginning to like you Divebuddy ;-)

[Baldric]

Now then, Now then!

[Peter Pedant]

I was at primary school in 1962 when Christine Keeler hit the headlines. This of course was kept away from us all ( skool-boyz ) as 'too disgusting' but we all knew what was going on. hur hur hur

Of course when the adults were discussing it with circumlocutions and hushed voices we had to wear angelic other-worldly expressions and go on playing with our dinky toys ( whilst listening hard and then reporting to our peers later....)

I am pretty sure we knew Vassall had been surprised in a Moscow hotel kissing a man and not a woman, as well....

[inksplotter]

Is this an extract from Fifty Years On?