Box Office

Content Advisory

The School of Drama now provides content advisories for its season of plays.  If you choose to read the advisories below, please be aware that they may reveal elements of the plot prior to viewing.  While the school does not have a policy on admission for children, parents are urged to use their own discretion when considering what is appropriate.

For any questions regarding content advisories, please email Maria Stoy, Box Office Manager at mstoy@andrew.cmu.edu.

New Works

Content Advisories:

  • References to death
  • Implied physical violence
  • Discussions of police brutality

Constellations

Content Advisories:

  • Discussion of cancer
  • Discussion of assisted suicide

Sensory Advisories:

  • Haze
  • Bright, flashing lights

You on the Moors Now

Content Advisories:

  • Depictions of violence and death
  • Explicit language
  • Verbal abuse and misogyny

Sensory Advisories:

  • Haze and fog
  • Loud noises
  • Brief, dim strobe

Orion & the Goatman

Content Advisories:

  • Alcohol and drug use
  • References to sexual situations
  • References to death
  • Strong language

Sensory Advisories:

  • Strobe
  • Haze
  • Fog
  • Strong smells

Godspell

Content Advisories:

  • Crucifixion
  • Depiction of suicide
  • Depiction/discussion of violence against women
  • Discussion of faith
  • References and depictions of death

Sensory Advisories:

  • Strobe
  • Haze
  • Search lights
  • Audience blinders
  • Loud noises

Adult Things

Content:

  • Sexual references
  • Strong language
  • Discussions of violence and death
  • Partial nudity on video
  • Offstage violence

Health & Safety:

  • Flashing screens
  • Bright lights
  • Strobes
  • Theatrical haze
  • Gunshots
  • Loud/abrupt noise

Babel

Content:

  • Coarse language
  • Partial Nudity
  • Nudity depicted in media
  • Ableism
  • Offstage violence
  • Self harm
  • Themes of pregnancy, childbirth, and abortion
  • Eugenics

Health & Safety:

  • Theatrical haze

Dance/Light

Health & Safety:

  • Strobe light
  • Theatrical haze
  • Sudden loud noises

Dance Nation

Content:

  • “Dance Nation” contains stylized gore, coarse language, depictions of self-harm and masturbation, and descriptions of sex and sexual assault and harassment.  The script also contains references to cultural appropriation and racism, disordered eating, suicide and mental illness, cancer, and death.

Health & Safety:

  • Prolonged use of strobe
  • Theatrical haze
  • Flashing lights
  • Periodic audience “blinders” (bright lights)
  • Sudden loud noises
  • Screeching, high frequency noises
  • Loud, intense pulsating bass

this old haunt

Content:

  • This performance contains discussion of grief and loss. Themes of the occult and stylized rituals occur. Use of strong language.

Health & Safety:

  • Theatrical fog
  • Theatrical haze
  • Brief instance of strobe in the form of lightning

Considering Matthew Shepard

Content:

  • This performance contains discussion of homophobic violence and rhetoric, as well as descriptions of a hate crime. There is the singular usage of a homophobic slur.

Health & Safety:

  • Strobe Light
  • Theatrical Haze

As You Like It

Health & Safety:

  • Strobe Light
  • Theatrical Haze

Junior Performance Project

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Content:

  • Depictions of parental neglect

Health & Safety:

  • Strobe Light
  • Theatrical Haze

 

Your Boyfriend May Be Imaginary:

Health & Safety:

  • Strobe Light
  • Theatrical Haze