Mad Doug Biker
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I can see this running and running! 
This is appalling!
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Levo-Lon
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Cletus Van Damme
Previously known as Cheesney Hawks
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It look like the play's producers are going out of their way to purposely make a flop, like Springtime For Hitler.
Chris S
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People watch beheading videos
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gavroche
Getting old but not past it
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It is not a question or liking it or not, it is a matter of morals and this is very much lacking at the moment in the world.
Have you ever watched a TV documentary on say Adolf Hitler or Josef Stalin? Is it morally wrong to make such porogrammes?
Heathcliffe was a pretty vile man yet Wuthering Heights is one of the most celebrated works of English literature. Del Boy and Arthur Daly are examples of much loved TV characters who were actually pretty dodgy if you'd known them in real life.
I would very much doubt anyone will write a play condoning or celebrating what Saville did. It's about studying characters. It will draw attention and raise awarenesses about the evils of child abuse too.
Heaven help us if we are only allowed watch/read about characters who are morally acceptable. We were allowed freedom of speech last time I looked.
Edit: And if people protest and make enough fuss in the press, you will guarantee it a packed theatre for the opening night.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
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True, but would they pay West End Theatre prices to watch them?
Actually you're right, some people would- it's just comes down at the end to whether enough people would to make it profitable.
Mad Doug Biker
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I'm curious, how do I get a ticket?? 
Tin Pot
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I too am appalled by the things that I have not seen and do not yet exist!
There should be a law against this sort of thing!
Tin Pot
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I'm curious, how do I get a ticket??
Submit your name to the Database Of People Who Worship Satan, and it will be handily redistributed to the EDF/ISIS/Guardian.
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
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Ocht I did that ages ago, I mean get a ticket for this Saville thing, not the beheadding video!
Over The Hill
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Springtime for Hitler
We do seem to have lots of "entertainment" based on victims. Sweeny Todd, although fictional seems rather in bad taste with song and dance routines while dispatching victims. There was some rather horrid thing on TV at the weekend about DNA fingerprinting based on a true case. Surely the victims family is still around.
On from there we have lots of crimes turned into films, like the great train robbery and McVicar which I think were both written or at least had input from the criminals themselves profiteering from their crime.
I feel people should have the freedom to produce the art they wish to produce but really the public could be a bit more selective in what they pay to see.
Then of course it is OK to do what you want if you are Michael Jackson and settle out of court. You still get your music played.
We do seem to have lots of "entertainment" based on victims. Sweeny Todd, although fictional seems rather in bad taste with song and dance routines while dispatching victims. There was some rather horrid thing on TV at the weekend about DNA fingerprinting based on a true case. Surely the victims family is still around.
On from there we have lots of crimes turned into films, like the great train robbery and McVicar which I think were both written or at least had input from the criminals themselves profiteering from their crime.
I feel people should have the freedom to produce the art they wish to produce but really the public could be a bit more selective in what they pay to see.
Then of course it is OK to do what you want if you are Michael Jackson and settle out of court. You still get your music played.
Mad Doug Biker
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True, but that 'horrid' thing to which you refer was just as much the story of how an unrelated scientific discovery gradually developed into the meeting between Science and Police work and the forensic police investigations we have today.
It followed the first (admittedly unfortunate) cases where it was used as well as what the Scientists did at Leicester University to create the intial breakthrough of being able to record everyone's individual DNA, to develop what had originally been meant as little more than a paternity test and then help the Police after being asked, to apply it to work where it had never been intended for, with clear success!
In terms of the number of dangerous people who otherwise would probably still be walking the streets, but instead have been put behind bars, as well as those who have been proven innocent over the past 30 years, I see it as anything but 'horrid'. It changed so much, regardless of how accurate the dramatisation may or may not be!
Oh, and I doubt they would have done it without the permission of the families, do you?
Surely even they can see the good that came out of it. Yes, I bet they wished it had happened another way, but, it didn't.
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