Whatever Happened to Good Taste in Backstreet Abortions?

Several audience members clutched their pearls and wilted, and the rest were made to suffer the righteous indignation of another, when a stage play whose programme notes warned of blood, sexual content including coercion, and graphic abortion scenes, turned out against all expectation to contain graphic abortion scenes. Apparently the casualties were mostly male, including the shouter from the circle who had not read the programme notes, the theatre's website or the email sent to ticket holders. Since the play is called The Years, it is possible that the snowflakes were expecting an adaptation from Virginia Woolf. In any case, London's Almeida theatre is privileged to have witnessed some of the most perceptive on-site criticism since the screaming and fainting which greeted the revelation that Tod Browning's Freaks had freaks in it.