CONTENT WARNING:

A Beginner's Guide to the Night Sky Content warning:

Our premiere performance of A Beginner's Guide to the Night Sky with Eastern Front Theatre involves the following technical elements:

• Outdoor, unsheltered performances on uneven, grassy terrain
• A capella singing 
• Nighttime performances
• LED illumination and lights
• Dialogue in English and French

This production involves the following content that may be triggering to some individuals:

REFERENCE TO:

• stargazing, sight, and looking at the sky with bare eyes and binoculars
• memory
• things disappearing slowly until nothing is left 
• high school
• drinking wine 
• meteors hitting the earth
• being an architecture student
• loss
• unimaginable remoteness and the vastness of outer space
• implied death

DEPICTIONS OF:

• Mother/adult child relationships and conflict
• Physical and verbal violence from an ill parent to an adult child
• Accusations of theft 
• Grief and mourning 
• A parent trying to honour her child's nonbinary gender identity
• Neurological illness that presents like early-onset dementia
• Being outside in cold temperatures
• Urn/scattering of ashes

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.