Santa Rosa community members gathered at the Mercury Theatre in Petaluma to support a play by Santa Rosa High School after district officials briefly canceled the performance due to “mature content.”
For months, students worked on a production of the play “Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead,” a spin on the classic Peanuts comic strip centering on high school-age Charlie Brown. However, after a successful opening night on Thursday, the district decided to cancel performances after the first showing drew complaints.
“They called me in for a meeting and sat me down, just said, this show has profanity and some of it might be considered obscenity,” said Jereme Anglin, the theater teacher at Santa Rosa High School.
All the students’ parents had signed waivers acknowledging there was mature content.
The show is filled with drug use, sexual innuendos, and foul language, but it appears that the main objection …