Third Eye Theatre

• The following is our best guess at anticipating potentially triggering content. The below obviously contains some spoilers!

Content Warnings for Boo!

• Strong language / profanity
• Discussions of death and ghosts / paranormal themes
• Murder references (including discussion of a murdered sex worker and historical deaths/suicides)
• Jump scares / sudden loud noises (crashes, screams, flickering lights, spooky audio)
• Strobe or flickering light effects
• Simulated asthma attack / breathing distress
• Ableist language / discussion of mental illness (brief, mostly in character dialogue)
• Sexual references / innuendo (mild, comedic)
• Threats of violence played for comedy (characters joking about killing each other / hitting with a shoe)
• Alcohol present onstage (champagne bottle)
• Gas / fart humor
• Overall vibe: spooky-comedic PG-13, not hardcore horror. More Scooby-Doo for queer adults with swear words than Hereditary.

Content Warnings for Challah If You Queer Me

• Homophobic language / reclaimed slurs used humorously and affectionately
• includes words like “lesbo,” “dyke/dykedom,” “lezzie,” and references to “lavender menace”
• Sexual references / innuendo
• references to sex, pregnancy (“knocking boots / getting knocked up”), labia, etc., but all comedic and mild-to-moderate
• Religious / cultural humor involving Judaism
• heavy use of Jewish jokes, Yiddish wordplay, and parody of Jewish family stereotypes
• Discussion of coming out / fear of rejection
• brief anxiety about family rejection or being disowned, though it resolves positively and quickly
• Overall vibe: PG-13 queer Jewish sitcom chaos 
• Basically: I Love Lucy gets drunk on Manischewitz and becomes aggressively supportive of lesbians.

Content Warnings for Downward Facing

• Strong language / frequent profanity. Lots of “fuck,” “asshole,” etc. throughout.
• Homelessness / housing insecurity / gentrification themes
• Alcohol use / alcoholism
• Drug use (marijuana / joint smoking)
• Mental health themes / depression/isolation, trauma, and emotional distress
• Family abandonment / parental neglect
• Transphobia / misgendering (Mostly from character flaws, not endorsed by the play.)
• Sexual content / nudity references
• Includes discussion of sex, nudity, hookups, oral sex references (“blow-job”), and sensual scenes.
• Pregnancy / reproductive themes
• Pregnancy is a major plot point. Includes discussions of conception and prenatal care.
• Ableist language / body-shaming language
• Includes terms like “crazy,” plus joking references to weight/body size.
• Smoking: Cigarettes and joints both appear.
• Overall vibe: R-rated queer dramedy with sharp humor and real emotional bruises
• Honestly, kind of messy, horny, sad, funny Portland-core. 

Content Warnings for Every Guy

• Child sexual abuse / grooming
• Strong language and frequent profanity
• Homophobic, racist, antisemitic, and ableist slurs/language
• Explicit sexual content and sexual dialogue
• BDSM / rough sexual dynamics / coercive power dynamics
• Alcohol and drug use (including cocaine, marijuana, and psychedelics)
• Addiction themes
• Severe mental illness (including psychosis, paranoia, delusions, mania, and schizophrenia)
• Institutionalization / psychiatric hospitalization
• Police interaction / arrest
• Suicidal ideation and suicide
• Sexually transmitted infection discussion
• Illness / epidemic trauma (including COVID- and HIV/AIDS-related themes)
• Emotional abuse / toxic relationships
• Death and grief
• Overall vibe: NC-17 queer tragicomedy. Very funny until it suddenly rips your heart out. 

Content Warnings for Nothing is Nothing is Nothing

• Frequent strong profanity / sexual language
• Bawdy sexual humor throughout (constant innuendo, explicit dialogue)
• Sex references / simulated sexual activity
• Orgasm sounds / BDSM sound effects (whips, chains, moaning in opening)
• Death / corpse onstage for much of play (the King’s dead body remains present)
• Murder mystery themes
• Homophobia / heteronormative role inversion used as satire
• Gender role satire / trans-adjacent humor / cross-gender costuming
• Worth noting: some jokes around the Bishop shifting titles/presentation (Father/Sister/Mother/Rabbi/etc.) could land weird depending on audience.
• Sexual coercion / power imbalance themes
• Mostly comedic, but the Queen repeatedly pressures others sexually
• Graphic sexual objectification
• Genital gag / detachable penis joke  yes really
• Alcohol use / intoxication
• Arsenic poisoning reference
• Flatulence / gross-out humor
• Body fluid jokes
• Fish / rot / decomposition humor
• Religious satire / irreverence toward clergy
• Blasphemous comedy
• Ableist language (light / period-typical insults)
• Rating: R bordering on NC-17-for-grandmas

The Flowers of Virtue Content Warnings

• Suicide (major plot point)
• A character dies by suicide via pill overdose
• Suicide is discussed repeatedly, including a prior suicide (Cameron) and later Millicent’s death
• Suicidal ideation / self-blame
• Characters express guilt, responsibility, fear of future suicides
• Emotional abuse / coercive control strongly present in relationship dynamics
• Isolation, manipulation, possessiveness, love-bombing, dependency
• Codependency / enmeshment
• Psychological manipulation / gaslighting
• Verbal cruelty / humiliation (Including targeted emotional attacks during fights)
• Transphobia / transmisogyny
• Slurs used
• Misgendering, deadnaming fears
• Family rejection
• Fear of public harassment/violence
• Detransition themes explored in nuanced but emotionally loaded ways
• Could be highly activating for some trans audience members
• Queer trauma / community infighting
• Ostracization, ideological policing, abandonment
• Religious trauma
• Ex-Mormon background
• Evangelical references
• Shame around gender/identity
• Family abuse / emotional neglect, especially parental rejection
• Homophobia
• Harassment / street harassment
• Sexual harassment by strangers
• Fatphobic harassment
• A character’s friend is targeted by men yelling about her weight
• Substance use
• Alcohol
• Drug use / intoxication
• Hash mentioned
• Kink / BDSM themes
• Dom/sub dynamics
• “Mommy,” ownership language, consensual power exchange
• Contracts, collar/pet dynamics, consensual submission
• Sexual content / explicit sexual dialogue, not super graphic, but very present
• Self-harm reference, not active onstage, but discussed
• Death/grief central
• Rating: Hard R. Overall vibe: A sharp, intimate, and emotionally intense psychological drama about trans community, identity, codependency, grief, and survival. Raw, thoughtful, and deeply unsettling

The Women’s Ward Content Warning

• Strong language / profanity (moderate, includes “fuck,” “asshole”)
• Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts (multiple characters discuss attempts; hanging and overdose methods described)
• Psychiatric institutionalization / asylum setting (including coercive treatment and pathologizing queer identity)
• Homophobia / conversion-pathology themes (Jeff is institutionalized for being gay / “effeminate”)
• Sexual assault / child sexual abuse (Anna describes trauma involving her father; strongly implied incest/assault)
• Domestic abuse / intimate partner violence
• Murder / spousal homicide (Sarah killed her husband)
• Child death / loss of a child (major emotional monologue from Jan)
• Alcoholism / addiction (Maggie’s alcoholism is central)
• Drug references (marijuana, pills)
• Mental illness themes (depression, psychosis, trauma, dissociation, panic)
• Self-harm references (head banging, overdose discussion)
• Medical trauma / dehumanization by institutions
• Grief / death themes throughout
• Rating: Hard R. A haunting, compassionate psychological ensemble drama. A memory play, almost ghost-story adjacent, where trauma from different decades bleeds together in one shared space

Content Warnings for Queerly Departed

• Strong language / frequent profanity
• Death, grief, and funeral themes (entire play centers around a grandfather’s funeral)
• References to elder abuse / child abuse
• Physical child abuse depiction (including belt whipping, shown/heard onstage)
• Homophobia / queerphobic slurs (including f-slur)
• Transphobia / gender-based shaming (especially around gender nonconformity)
• Domestic/family trauma
• Arson / fire
• Death by fire / smoke inhalation
• Discussion of murder / mercy killing within family context
• Alcohol use / intoxication
• Drug use (marijuana vape, cocaine references/use)
• Sexual references / explicit sexual dialogue (adult but mostly comedic)
• Kink references / watersports joke
• Urination on a coffin/grave (yes, really) 

Overall vibe: Hard R