Content Warnings

2024 season warnings

To help you prepare to see shows at OSF, we are providing this page of detailed content that may be upsetting to some viewers.

Please note that how sensitive content is treated can change during rehearsals. We will update these content warnings to reflect these changes throughout the season, so please check back on this page before you arrive to see the production.

If you have questions or concerns not addressed on this page, please contact our Box Office or Group Sales (if you will be visiting us with a group).

SPOILER ALERT! These content warnings contain details that may give away key plot points in the play.

Macbeth
The play contains stage-stylized violence and murder, sensuality, witches, and imagery about death. There is a description of a suicide by jumping off battlements, and a fight to the death.

Strobe lights are used during the first 3 minutes, during the witches' scenes, and a few others during scene transitions.
Born with Teeth
The play contains some instances of strong profanity and sexual references, a physical, passionate kiss, and other sensual moments.
Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender
Contains stories of domestic abuse, family suicide, death by fire, and traumatic Holocaust experiences.
Smote This, A Comedy About God... and Other Serious $H*T
There is humor about death, some profanity, sexual references, and stories about being beaten by a parent. There is also use of the n-word by an African American.
Virgins to Villains 
There is no content warning at this time.
Lizard Boy
Other than battles with dragons, there are no content warnings at this time.
Coriolanus

Coriolanus contains mob and other kinds of violence, talk of a suicide, and assassination. Check back for more information.

Behfarmaheen (If You Please) 
This play has a lovely innocence that is free of triggering material.
Much Ado About Nothing 
Much Ado About Nothing contains a parent verbally abusing their child.
Jane Eyre
The play contains memories of past abuses of being locked up and some minimal physical cruelty as a child, threats of fire, talk of potential suicide, and bigamy, and has one character with a mental illness, who is locked up and violent.