CONTENT WARNING:
The workshop production of Rain on the Parade involves the following technical elements:
- Amplified voices of actors on stage, speaking, singing and in some cases with added effects
- Haze
- Live music performed by a band
- Darkness with flashlights used as a light source
- Amplified sound effects
- Distorted vocals
- Loud noises
- Screams and jarring sounds
- Bright spotlights
- A set that uses multiple levels
- Video projections depicting roller coasters and fire (specifically people's heads catching on fire / spontaneous human combustion)
The workshop production of Rain on the Parade involves the following content that may be triggering to some individuals.
Depictions of:
- Characters wearing theatre half-masks
- People's heads catching on fire / spontaneous human combustion
- A face split up in distorted ways
- The painting "Saturn Devouring His Son" by Francisco Goya (which depicts a titan feasting on a human body)
- Drinking alcohol to the point of inebriation
- The concept of the "euthanasia rollercoaster" (a ride which, by design, results in death)
- A funeral
- Possession
- A single mother with two adult children
- A character who chooses to remain silent and not speak
Reference to:
- Audiences having perished terribly or fleeing, on fire
- Theatre fires
- People having burned
- Crows cawing
- Volcanoes (Vesuvius) and heat turning brains into glass
- Being an orphan
- Alcoholism
- Suicide
- reference to a forest with burning trees
- Kangaroos drowning people
- Toxic masculinity
- Verbal abuse from a parent / child abuse
- Cutting someone's head off
- Being abandoned by one's father/husband
- Turning down a marriage proposal
- Fornication
- Euthanasia
- Roller coasters
- Grief
If you have any concerns or questions, or if you would like to chat about the content of the play, please reach out to info@villainstheatre.com.