Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2024 Content Advisories

This is a list of content advisories for Festival 2024 shows, in alphabetical order by title, provided by our artists. As a festival of new work, ideas develop right up to performance, but this should give a sense for each show:

 

12HOURS

None

 

The Acts of Brízida Vaz

Death (takes place in the afterlife but does not address death directly), Sexual References (not descriptive or graphic)

 

A Life of One’s Own

Death (a monologue about a spouse’s death)

 

Aqua Tofana

Death (never seen directly, but murder is a central theme), Sexism (1600s chauvinism, threats, and violence language towards many female characters), Sexual Violence (implied but not gratuitous), Violence (implied but not explicitly shown onstage; mentions of the main character’s mother being abused by her father)

 

Buster’s Trip

TBA

 

#CAPITAL

None

 

Ciphers

Death (one gentle onstage death without violence; an announcement about a death by accident or suicide)

 

Fossil Violence

Violence (mentioned only)

 

The Game Opera

This production contains strong language, periods of darkness, flashing images, loud music/sounds. This production also features depictions of violence and death.

 

Ghost

This show is about death and trauma. The show involves a combination of serious and comic acting, with a more uplifting and healing resolution at the end. It includes strong language, and mentions of homophobia, sexism, ableism, bullying, mental ill-health, torture, violence, and sexual violence. No violence is depicted onstage, but is described in speech and music.

 

Heart of Matter

None

 

Herzog

None

 

Horse Person Opera

Bigotry & Discrimination (a rally in which horses are disparaged), Death (montage of warfare and killing; execution scene), Strong Language (‘fuck’, said once), Violence (two surgery scenes, one involving cutting into someone’s neck, another involving separating a human torso from a horse)

 

I Shot Mussolini

Sexism, Mental Ill-Health, Suicide, Violence.

The piece is set in an asylum, and features a mentally unstable protagonist. The show depicts the lead-up to her assassination attempt and a possible reference to her suicide text. There is a possibility of sexist language in the text.

 

Improvesarios – Improvised Opera

Death, Strong Language. This show is improvised. The creators aim at a broadly ‘PG’ rating, avoiding sexual or overly violence prompts, though there may be some swearing. All violence will be comedic.

 

Letters

Mental Ill-health (central character is a mother with mental health challenges), Strong Language (an improvised scene may have the word ‘fuck’ in it, and it may be mentioned elsewhere), themes of childhood trauma, physical and emotional abuse (both explicitly shown in the first video; mentioned throughout the work), and drugs (referenced; a fake joint is smoked in one scene)

 

The Parting

TBC

 

The Prisoner

Execution by lethal injection (near the end of the opera)

 

QueerLove

The opera is created through a devising process with members of the LGBTQ+ community: themes of queerphobia, death, self harm, suicide, mental health – might or might not appear, depends on the process

 

Rendezvous with Revenge

Death (implied offstage assassination), Strong Language, Violence (one comedic physical fight, implied/symbolic violence in which effigies of the characters’ parents are stabbed), Drug usage (2 characters in Imposters will consume sweets in the middle of the piece alluding to consumption of ecstasy)

 

Senses

TBC

 

Serenoid

Death (not graphic or explicit), Violence (not graphic or explicit)

 

Star Quality

TBC

 

You Can’t Kill the Spirit

Discussions of Nuclear War, Sexism