Residents may voice their opinions on how the Springer Opera House intends to hold a profane adult performance that includes nudity and sexual acts without barring children from attending by contacting their city council members.

COLUMBUS, Ga. — The Springer Opera House is set to open a production that includes profane adult language, simulated sexual acts, and real-world nudity.

While some of-age adult theatre-goers may find the content suitable for adult audiences if a waiver was provided, the Springer’s executive staff currently plan to permit children to attend the lewd and nude performance.

The distribution of sexual content to minor children is a blatant violation of federal law, even if a waiver were to be used; children under 16 cannot legally provide consent. Labeling such content as “the arts” does not negate that, either.

The play is set to open with its first performance on April 20.

According to insiders with intimate knowledge of the play’s content, the performance will include:

• Continuous mature themes, language and dialogue;
• Frequent use of sexual profanity;
• Graphic and prolonged real-world nudity;
• Strong simulated homosexual sexual acts.

According to the same sources, the Springer Opera House’s executive staff are “unsure if they should require a waiver” for patrons to attend. 

Though a basic google search of the play reveals the performance’s well-known adult sexual content and nudity, the Springer’s own website makes no mention of it whatsoever. 

Instead, the Springer's website merely includes a fine-print footnote at the very bottom of the page that states: “Show contains adult themes and language.” That’s it.

There is no proper description, no warning, and no waiver for the public — nor parents — to view before bringing their families to the lewd & nude performance being put on by the State Theatre of Georgia.

How the Springer could possibly not intuitively conclude that only adults of legal age should be permitted to attend this performance is beyond comprehension. 

The Springer Opera House also receives state funding through grants from the Georgia Council For The Arts, which is a strategic arm of the Georgia Department of Economic Development. 

Those funds are an appropriation from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Should the performance include such obscenities, and if children are indeed permitted to attend, the terms of those grants would almost certainly be violated.

Additionally, the conveyance of obscenity to minor children under the age of 16 would almost certainly constitute a federal crime under 18 U.S.C. § 1470.

The lack of the Springer’s common sense on even considering to allow such a performance without so much as a waiver questions their sanity, let alone their competence and ability to uphold the trust of the public.

The disturbing lack of discretion comes shortly after long-time producing artistic director Paul Pierce was ‘retired’ to a new role as a ‘senior advisor.’ Pierce’s so-called retirement came after a slew of scandals stemming from his long history of disturbing comments made on social media and in public.

We leave the reader to decide for themselves and form their opinions on the decisions and actions of the Springer and its executive staff. 

Residents may voice their opinions on how the Springer Opera House intends to hold a profane adult performance that includes nudity and sexual acts without barring children from attending by contacting their city council members.

Facts are stubborn things — and we’ll keep publishing them, whether city officials like them or not.

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