Content Transparency
Content transparencies are intended to inform interested patrons that a show may contain sensitive content. These notices flag production elements or specific themes that may impact the patron experience. Content transparencies can be useful for all patrons, but especially those with noise sensitivity, people with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and those who would like to bring children.
Here is how we understand some of the terms used below:
Here is how we understand some of the terms used below:
- Depiction: An act that is simulated by a character onstage in a realistic way.
- Unseen action: An offstage act that informs the progress of the story.
- Discussion: Characters onstage discuss this subject in some detail.
- Mentions: A brief reference or remark.
25/26 Season
The Wild Duck includes use of haze, a theatrical firearm and offstage gunshot effect, brief staged violence, staged blood, and unseen action and discussion of teen suicide.
Parental discretion advised for those under 16.
Guys and Dolls includes depictions of gambling and alcohol consumption.
Paranormal Activity includes loud noises, sudden darkness, depictions of blood and gore, and discussions of mental health.
No content warnings at this time.
Hamnet includes depictions of childbirth, domestic violence, and depiction and discussions of the death of a child.
Othello includes discussion of domestic abuse and depictions of psychological manipulation, racist language, murder by strangulation, and suicide.
Questions?
Please contact our Box Office at STCBox@ShakespeareTheatre.org or 202.547.1122 and we’ll be happy to give you more information.