This is a list of content advisories for Festival 2022 shows, in alphabetical order by title, provided by our artists. As a festival of new work ideas develop right up to performance but this gives you a sense:
Content Advisories: Passing anti-Semitic pro-Hitler reference, strongly countered; violent attempt to destroy a book
A Coffin, A Confession, and A Cautionary Tale
Content Advisories: Mental illness, seen on stage; sexual content mentioned in the text (of An Organist’s Confession), flashing lights.
Content Advisories: Many deaths seen on stage. Performance held in a brewery. Connection between black death and COVID (not intended).
Content Advisories: Satire on religion & dying; mild sexual references
Content Advisories: Strong language and sexual themes throughout, strobe lighting.
Content Advisories: None
Note: This show is a double bill with The Journey, which has content advisories for “an unnamed traumatic event, or series of traumatic events, that afflict the Man in our opera; however, the language is quite abstract”.
Content Advisories: None
Content Advisories: Strobe lighting.
Content Advisories: None
Content Advisories: There is an unnamed traumatic event, or series of traumatic events, that afflict the Man in our opera; however, the language is quite abstract.
Note: This show is a double bill with The Dong with a Luminous Nose, which has no content advisories.
Content Advisories: None
Memoirs of an Amnesiac: The Life of Erik Satie
Content Advisories: None
Content Advisories: None
Content Advisories: There will be death but it’ll be very slapstick!
Content Advisories: There is a non-graphic, fake, brain surgery in the show.
Content Advisories: None
Content Advisories: Death of a loved one, grief
Content Advisories: Death on stage
Content Advisories: Content has scenes that involve violence, strobe lighting.
Sometimes I visualise myself back in the belly of my mother
Content Advisories: Loneliness
Summer Sounds: We Are The Monsters
Content Advisories: None
Content Advisories: It is implied that Toadette kills herself, but it is not certain or ominous. She staggers offstage with a knife. The next time we see her, she is in heaven. Strobe lighting.
The Trilobite, Or The Fall Of Mr Williams
Content Advisories: Person falling off a cliff.
Until The Trans Lady Sings – The First Aria
Content Advisories: WARNING – NOT ENTIRELY OPERA: JUST VAGUELY ABOUT OPERA!
Content Advisories: Death by drowning
what the dog said to the harvest
Content Advisories: the nature of the libretto and some of the film content will contain challenging issues on climate, discrimination and human migration but nothing explicit or violent. The most graphic statement is in the poetry/libretto where we describe Rene Descartes ‘nailing his wife’s dog’ to a board, in reference to his use of vivisection and violation of nature.