Content 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).

We recognize that challenging content can disturb as well as enlighten. If you are interested in support resources, please find some suggestions here.

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

Julius Caesar contains stabbing, crowd brutality, and allusions to fascism. There are also “Roman” suicides, considered honorable in ancient times after committing a devastating mistake. This production contains some light effects which may not be suitable for people with photosensitivity.

The Importance of Being Earnest contains alcohol consumption.

The play contains profanity; the “n-word” used familiarly by Black characters to one another; alcohol use; sexual innuendo; conversation about rape, murder, references to PTSD; physical violence and the appearance of a gun.

Shane contains physical violence that may be extreme. Characters use theatrical replica guns and knives as weapons of attack and defense.

Fat Ham contains strong profanity and candid sexual content including a discussion of oral sex and sounds of pornography from a phone. The “n-word” is spoken by characters of color. Physical violence and alcohol use are depicted, as are references to drug use. There is language that may be considered culturally derogatory, fatphobic, and homophobic. Theatrical smoke/haze and strobe-like effects are used in this production.

No content warning at this time.

Quixote Nuevo contains characters being pursued and detained by border patrol agents as well as threatened by an officer carrying a simulated theatrical assault rifle. A slur is used by a character of color to refer to migrant farm workers. There is killing of sheep puppets, spanking one another, and moments of staged violence. Theatrical smoke/haze and strobe-like effects are used in this production.

Quixote Nuevo includes themes that touch on aspects of immigration that affect people differently. Here are resources related to immigration, immigrant support, Latine mental health, and ways to help. Información disponible también en español.

The play contains humor about adultery, sexual innuendo and slapstick comedy which includes occasional hitting and slapping. Strobe lights are used in this production.

In classic fairy-tale style, there is blood, acts of murder, child neglect, manslaughter, amputation, stealing, and poking out of eyes. Into the Woods also contains themes of infertility and adultery. Theatrical smoke/haze and strobe-like effects are used in this production.

Powerful theatre can move, challenge, distress, delight...and sometimes, doesn’t end when you leave. We recognize that challenging content can disturb as well as enlighten. Please use the following resources to empower yourself.

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
1-800-273-8255

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Lifeline
Call or text 988

National Domestic Violence Hotline
thehotline.org or at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)
Online chat is available.
Calling is recommended if concerned that internet usage may be monitored

Community Works/Dunn House
If you live in the Rogue Valley (Oregon)
Crisis line: 541-779-4357
www.community-works.org

Jackson County Sexual Assault Response Team (SART)
If you live in the Rogue Valley (Oregon)
541-840-0904
www.jacksoncountysart.org

National Sexual Assault Hotline
1-800-840-0904

Suicide and Crisis Lifeline for Veterans
Dial 988, then press “1” or text 8328255
chat online with the Veterans Crisis Line at www.veteranscrisisline.net

Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
Call or text 988

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Lifeline
Call or text 988

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender National Hotline
1-888-843-4564

Q Chat Space
(online community for LGBTQ+ teens)
www.qchatspace.org

The Trevor Project
1-866-488-7386
www.thetrevorproject.org

Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline
Call or text 1-800-422-4453

Oregon Child Abuse Hotline
1-855-503-SAFE (7233)

Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse (ASCA)
www.ascasupport.org

RESOLVE: The National Infertility Institute
find support groups at www.resolve.org.
For groups in Oregon, please see
resolve.org/support-groups_state/oregon

Sanctuary Promise Program
Oregon has been a sanctuary state since 1987. For more information about what this means, please see the Oregon Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Services page at bit.ly/3QpTGkR

Equity Corps of Oregon
low- to no-cost legal services for immigrants
1-888-274-7292.

Oregon Worker Relief
For immigrants who have lost work, are experiencing eviction, or other financial emergency
[email protected] or www.workerrelief.org.

Infidelity Survivors Anonymous
for a local support group that works with betrayed and/or unfaithful partners
www.isurvivors.org