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Production Content Guide

If there are specific themes, triggers or allergies which you would like to discuss before you book then please call the Box Office on 020 7359 4404 or email boxoffice@almeida.co.uk

Below is a detailed breakdown for each upcoming production listing specific content that may impact audience members. This includes actions and themes as well as technical triggers.

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 production.

 



Please note the information below may also contain spoilers which may impact your experience of the production.

Romans

Recommended for ages 15+.

Thematic triggers: 
This production includes guns, child abuse, suicide, alcoholism and drug abuse, colonial violence, misogynistic language, sexual violence, maternal death, and mental illness.

Technical triggers:
This production includes the smoking of herbal cigarettes and an e-cigar, loud noises including gunshots, extreme lighting states, and haze.

The Line of Beauty

Recommended for ages 15+.

Thematic triggers:
This production includes depictions of sex and drug usage, references to suicide, self-harm, HIV, mental illness, racist and homophobic language.

Christmas Day

Recommended for ages 15+.

Thematic triggers:
This production includes male nudity, blood, dead animals, drug use, discussion of antisemitism and antisemitic slurs, discussion and descriptions of violence, war, and death in Gaza.