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.
Recommended for ages 14+.
Thematic triggers:
This production includes strong language, misogyny, depictions of death, grief, war, bombing, political oppression, illness, and violence including against children, as well as a graphic description of injured soldiers.
Technical triggers:
This production includes flashing and flickering lights, haze, sudden blackouts, burning of esfand seeds*, almonds and walnuts being consumed on stage, jump scares and sudden loud noises including sirens.
If you have been affected by issues raised in this production, help is available. You can reach out to organisations such as Beyond Conflict, or the Middle Eastern Women & Society Organisation.
*Esfand seeds are burned to cleanse spaces and ward off the evil eye in many Persian and Middle Eastern cultures.
For a more detailed guide on the content included in Under the Shadow, please see our downloadable content guide.
Recommended for ages 15+.
Thematic triggers:
This production includes strong language, depictions of violence and sexual assault and discussion of miscarriage, rape, domestic violence and traumatic childbirth.
Technical triggers:
This production includes the use of blood, flashing lights and haze.
Recommended for ages 12+.
Thematic triggers:
This production contains strong language, depictions of gambling, and discussions of sexual content, violence against women, murder, religion, displacement and war.
Technical triggers:
This production includes flashing lights, haze and sudden loud noises, including sirens.
Recommended for ages 16+.
Thematic triggers:
This production includes torture, murder and violence, including sexual violence, depictions of sex and nudity, drug abuse and drugging, depictions of suicide, homophobic and misogynistic language and blood.
Technical triggers:
This production includes blackouts, flashing lights, loud, sudden noises and latex.
Recommended for ages 12+.
Thematic triggers:
This production includes misogynistic, homophobic, racist and strong language, depictions of violence, injury detail, gambling, heavy drinking, and references to suicide, manslaughter, domestic violence and death.
Technical triggers:
This production includes smoking, flashing lights, haze and sudden blackouts.
Recommended for ages 15+.
Thematic triggers:
This production includes misogynistic, racist and strong language, as well as depictions of violence including domestic violence, incest, sexual threat, infanticide, sexual content, alcoholism, and references to death and grief.
Technical triggers:
This production includes smoking, flashing lights, haze and sudden blackouts.