School Cancels Play About Darwin and Evolution After Parents Complain

Original letters from Charles Darwin are displayed at the Herbaruim library at the Royal Botanic Gardens in London, UK, on March 25, 2009. Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

An elementary school in Britain has canceled a play about Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution following complaints from a group of parents on grounds the performance disparages the perspective of creationism.

Several families at Hartford Manor Primary School, a school in a village in Cheshire, threatened to withdraw their children from the play because they felt one of the scenes mocked a bishop involved in a historic debate on evolution, according to the Independent.