Content Advisories
If you have a question about age appropriateness, please call Ticketing Services for a conversation: 617-266-0800
Content advisories are written notices for our shows to let interested patrons know that a show may contain sensitive content ahead of time. These notices flag specific themes that may be upsetting so our patrons can adequately prepare themselves to engage with or, if necessary, disengage from the material.
Content advisories can be useful for all patrons, but especially parents with children, people with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and folks with noise sensitivity.
Our content advisories are focused around the levels to which certain themes are present in the text and staging of the play. The terms we use are:
- Discussion: characters onstage discuss this subject in some detail.
- Depiction: an act that is simulated by a character onstage in a realistic way.
- Mentions: a brief reference or remark
Content advisories for individual shows can be found below or by navigating to the show’s informational page and clicking the Content Advisory button in the upper right corner.
Leopoldstadt includes depictions of blood, adultery, euthanasia, antisemitism, Nazi war crimes, genocide, and includes archival recordings of Adolf Hitler’s voice. This play mentions suicide. It also includes a discussion of Zionism and of circumcision in the context of Jewish tradition.
Leopoldstadt uses herbal cigarettes (tobacco-free), haze and fog effects, and contains recorded gunshots and the sounds of aerial bombing.
Nassim includes strong language and possible audience participation.
Sojourners includes adult language, emotional abuse, traumatic labor pain/childbirth, sex work, and mother-child separation.
The Grove includes adult language, family conflict and violence, and homophobia.
The Triumph of Love includes an absurd/satirical representation of suicide.
Don’t Eat the Mangos includes interpersonal abuse, homophobic, racial, and sexist slurs, discussion of sexual assault/incest, discussion of suicide, forced abortion, and depiction of violent suffocation.
The Light in the Piazza includes ableism.