How does your theatre handle content warnings?

The more detail you are able to give in advance, the better equipped your audience can be to deal with potentially distressing topics. What topics need Content ...

An Approach to Content Warnings in the Theatre Classroom

Content warnings (also known as trigger warnings and often abbreviated to CW or TW) are short statements informing audiences about the content ...

How does your theatre handle content warnings? : r/techtheatre

I'm not really interested in discussing whether or not a content warning should be given, unless you make it clear you're coming from a place of empathy for ...

Using Content Warnings in Educational Theatre

One of the primary arguments against content warnings is that these warnings can often be spoilers. If a content warning for a traumatic event ...

Responsible Theatremaking | HowlRound Theatre Commons

That said, content warnings aren't about treating audiences like they are incapable of handling the material a play presents. Instead, warnings ...

Playing it Safe: How We Use Trigger Warnings in Theatre in Aotearoa

These decisions can include what the warning highlights, how the warning is worded and whether supporting materials need to be provided to ...

What are your thoughts on the cautious use of content warnings by ...

The cautious use of content warnings by theaters for productions is a thoughtful approach that prioritizes audience comfort and well-being.

Do you think content warnings in theatre programs serve ... - Quora

I dont mind the warning for seizures. Its an actual physical reaction. BUT for these “woke” people who cant handle the “violence” in a police ...

Trigger Warnings | The Play's the Thing Theatre Company

Even Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer is against these warnings. She said in a recent interview that theatre productions with "uncomfortable issues ...

Caution! Trigger and Content Warnings Are Here to Stay! - intix access

The objective content warnings are things that may be health risks. There are indeed people who are triggered by gunshots. There are people for ...

Triggered: A Defense of Theatrical Content Warnings - Newcity Stage

There is a lot of criticism targeted at trigger warnings. They can be seen as infantilizing an audience. Yet when it comes to offering people a ...

Content Guide, Warnings & Triggers | Almeida Theatre, London

Our content warnings are updated as a production evolves through rehearsals and previews, so please note they may change between booking a ticket and seeing the ...

Trigger warnings are a gift when I'm writing for the stage | Theatre

To know that a play contains, for example, scenes of self-harm, does nothing to ruin the experiences of an audience that came knowing that, ...

An Introduction to Content Warnings and Trigger Warnings

... does not assume that students cannot handle the material, on the contrary, it treats them as adults who can and should attend to their own wellbeing with ...

Trigger Warnings: How to Handle Guns Onstage and Off

Trigger Warnings: How to Handle Guns Onstage and Off. Whether the weapons are real or fake, part of the show or not, your theatre needs to be prepared.

Can we keep compassion at the heart of the conversation about ...

If we really have to discuss content warnings in theatre, though, then let's at least do so with some integrity and understanding. Let's have a ...

Brace Yourself in Act II: Trigger Warnings Come to the Stage

Sudden loud noises. Theatrical fog/haze. Scenes of violence. Adult language. Sexual situations. Adult humor and content.” The subject was a play ...

What Is An Artist's Responsibility? The Question Of Trigger Warnings

But, there are common sense guidelines. If a show contains abuse of any kind, explorations of mental illness and suicide, sexual assault or ...

Do trigger warnings ruin theatre's power to surprise?

Trigger warnings alert you to themes – like suicide, self-harm, or rape – a bit like the comments alongside cinema ratings, which no one seems ...

In defence of trigger warnings - Arts Professional

It's disheartening to see reports labelling the use of trigger warnings in theatres “ludicrous”, and asserting theatre is “precisely, and by ...