Content Warnings

Meow Meow's The Red Shoes
Created by Meow Meow

This production contains mild coarse language, haze, smoke effects, and strobe lighting.

Please note the following content warnings may contain spoilers.

Mild coarse language, "Shit" and "fuck" are said a couple times during the performance. Due to the improvised nature of some moments, other coarse language may be used sporadically.

Haze and smoke effects, haze and smoke effects are used on stage throughout the production.

Strobe and flashing lights, there are moments of strobe and flashing lights within the production.

RBG: Of Many, One
By Suzie Miller
With Heather Mitchell
Directed by Priscilla Jackman

This production contains coarse language, adult themes, sexism, use of herbal cigarettes, haze, and flashing lights, and complete theatrical blackout.

Please note the following content warnings may contain spoilers.

Abuse, emotional, verbal, physical, domestic abuse (mild)
Direct quotes as spoken by Donald Trump about leeching over women and 'grabbing them by the pussy' - not seen, but spoken.

Loss of loved one, death of a parent and/or spouse (mild)
Deaths of family members remembered and relived by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, including her mother, her sister, and her husband.

Medical procedures, hospitalisation (mild)
Ruth recounts her husband’s battle against testicular cancer, her battle against breast cancer, and her loss and subsequent death at the hands of pancreatic cancer.

Sexism, misogyny (strong)
The life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg is one of battling long inherited personal and structural misogyny. Reference to imbalance for women through RBG's life made, including Donald Trump's sexist and misogynistic language, women not being included in mourning procedures at Jewish funerals, women being told not to raise their voice, limited positions in higher education for women and the difficulty of women being hired into law firms.

Suicide, mention of suicide (mild)
In speaking about a case, Ruth tells the audience of a child who took their own life. No method is described.

The Shepherd's Hut
Adapted by Tim McGarry from the novel by Tim Winton
Directed by

This production contains coarse language, adult themes, references to/simulated violence including family & domestic violence, and sexual references.

Please note the following content warnings may contain spoilers.

Abuse - emotional, verbal, physical, domestic abuse (mild)
Central character Jaxie is abused verbally and beaten physically by his father Sid.

Alcoholism, alcohol (mild)
Sid, Jaxie's father, is often referred to as being drunk - and often results in a violence towards Jaxie.

Animal abuse, animal violence, animal sacrifice, death of an animal (possible)
Stylised depiction of a goat being slaughtered for meat, and a kangaroo being shot are made in the play. A character in the play is also a Butcher - and references to a bone crate in their shop is made.

Anger issues (mild)
The central character Jaxie wonders whether the anger of his father towards him, including violence, is inherent in him too. A central theme of the work is how things such as anger in young men can be navigated safely.

Coarse language (mild)
Words spoken include: 'shithead' 'fuck' 'cunt'

Death, murder , drowning, death threats, poisoning (mild)
After extensive abuse and torture Fintan dies on stage, and the two men who torture him are shot by Jaxie. These moments are enacted in a stylised way.

Guns, gun violence, mass shooting, gun shooting (mild)
Jaxie uses a gun to shoot two men who torture Fintan. This moment is depicted in a stylised manner onstage.

Sex, descriptions of sex (possible)
Felatio is referenced in the text, but not enacted onstage.

Simulated violence, knife fight, physical fight (mild)
Most physical violence in the performance is stylised. Including where two thugs tie up Fintan and torture him with a knife.

Terminal illness, cancer (possible)
Jaxie's mother suffered from a terminal cancer diagnosis and passed. References to her shaved head are made.

Torture (mild)
Stylised enaction/interpretation of torture as two thugs tie up Fintan to a gambrel and cut him with a knife.

Violence, physical assault (mild)
Stylised depictions of being beaten up, tied up, and cut with a knife are made in the play.

War, bombing, refugee crisis (possible)
Fintan, the Irish priest, alludes to acts of war and mass burial grounds he witnessed in Africa. These events are mentioned in an obscure way, and we are never given the full details of their occurrence.

The Almighty Sometimes
By Kendall Feaver
Directed by Emily McLean

Please note this production contains coarse language, depictions of and references to suicide, mental illness, and prescription drug use.

Please note the following content warnings may contain spoilers.

Ableism, ableist language (mild)
Our central character Anna uses ableist language when talking about Oliver's disabled father, calling him 'a fat old man stuck in a chair'. And that Oliver's dad lost his legs through 'inaction' alone.

Bipolar disorder (strong)
The play's central character Anna is spoken about as having bipolar disorder.

Coarse language (possible)
'Words spokein include: 'Fuck' 'Fucking' 'Bullshit' 'Shit' ‘Arse’ ‘Dick’, ‘Bitch’ ‘Bastard’ ‘Dickhead’ ‘Shithead’ ‘Wankstain’

Depression (possible)
Depression and experiences of depression are often recounted in the play from the perspective of many of the characters.

Drugs, depiction of someone on drugs (strong)
The central character of the play, Anna, is diagnosed with a serious mental illness that she has been medicated and treated for since childhood.
Characters frequently discuss Anna's medication. One of the questions Anna asks herself throughout the play is whether she is still unwell as an adult despite being unwell as a child and whether medication inhibits her creativity. Anna goes off her medication at several points in the play.
Anna discusses how many different medications she has been on and side effects such as weight gain, nausea, insomnia, anxiety, rapid cycling, crawling skin, sensitivity to light.
It is alluded to the possibility that Anna consumed medication as a child that was hidden in her food by her mother.

Mental illness (strong)
The central character of the play, Anna, is diagnosed of a serious mental illness that she has been medicated and treated for since childhood.

Self harm, self harm presented on stage (possible)
A description in a story is given of a girl 'opening herself like a leather bag' with a kitchen knife - and stepping out of her skin. This is spoken but not enacted.

Suicide, mention of suicide (strong)
There are several references to suicide in the play including a character describing the feeling of wanting to suicide and an incident in which as a child a character attempted suicide.
There is a specific reference to the mechanics of suicide via prescription medication between Anna and her psychiatrist.
During the play Anna appears to attempt suicide by swallowing a number of pills. In the scene where this occurs, her mother Renee puts her fingers down her throat and Anna is physically violent towards Renee and they wrestle with one another while Oliver calls an ambulance. Later, it is inferred that Anna knew that she couldn't overdose on those specific pills.

Violence, physical assault (possible)
Wrestling is enacted onstage, and at other points in the play there are references to violence made by characters in the past.

Day (After Day) In The Life Of The Useless
By Will O'Mahony
Directed by Adam Mitchell

Please note this production contains coarse language, references to suicide, and mild violence.

Please note the following content warnings may contain spoilers.

Bullying, blackmail, online abuse (possible)
Our lead character mentions feeling like they are being blackmailed by a child.

Coarse language (mild)
Language spoken includes words: 'Cunts' 'Fuck' 'Pussy' 'Shit' 'Asshole'

Drugs, depiction of someone on drugs (possible)
Light mention of anti-depressant drugs, or people needing medication for mental illness.

Guns, gun violence, mass shooting, gun shooting (mild)
A character pulls a gun out and suddenly shoots another character.

Loss of a love one, death of a parent and spouse (possible)
A few moments where cameo characters mention a dead parent.

Mental illness (possible)
Light mention of anti-depressant drugs, or people needing medication for mental illness.

Paranoia (possible)
Character could be interpreted to be having a paranoid episode as they begin to think robots may have infiltrated the human race.

Sex, descriptions of sex (possible)
Possible very brief simulation of a sex scene.

Suicide, mention of suicide (mild)
There are a few moments where characters mention killing themselves, or say in a hurtful way that another character should kill themselves. In one scene a character stands at a ledge pondering jumping from a great height, when another character appears and also wants to jump off the ledge. They both speak of suicide and argue about some reasoning to it.

Terminal illness, cancer (possible)
A character mentions in conversation they are recently diagnosed with Huntington's disease and may not have long to live.

Violence, physical assault (possible)
A character arranges (via a third party) for their therapist to be assaulted, but the wrong doctor is attacked offstage.

Raised in Big Spirit Country
Created by Naomi Pigram-Mitchell

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander audiences are advised that the presentation will contain images of deceased persons.

Jacky 
By Declan Furber Gillick
Directed by Kate Champion and Maitland Schnaars

This production contains adult themes of alcoholism, drug addiction and sex, depictions of racism/racist slurs, coarse language, and possible nudity. 

Please note the following content warnings may contain spoilers.

Alcoholism, alcohol (mild)
Reference to alcoholism made. Characters appear in scene is drunk.

Contains words & descriptions that may be culturally sensitive, racist language (mild)
Script includes racially sensitive commentary/General discrimination towards a race/Racial slurs – including racial profiling, fetishisation of First Nations men, and racial comments. Script also references injustices faced by First Nations people, regarding incarcerations and mistreatment.

Death, murder , drowning, death threats, poisoning (possible)
References are made to a mother's ill health and life expectancy.

Divorce (mild)
Two characters are going through a divorce in the play, and an intermarital relationship takes place as this divorce transpires

Drugs, depiction of someone on drugs (mild)
References to addiction are made, including alcohol addiction and smoking and drug problems.

Nudity (possible)
Possible male nudity on stage.

Racism, systemic racism, racial profiling, police brutality, Islamophobia, genocide, white supremacy, antisemitism, hate crimes, lynching, Black trauma, white nationalism (strong)
Script includes racially sensitive commentary/General discrimination towards a race/Racial slurs – including racial profiling, fetishisation of First Nations men, and racial comments. Script also references injustices faced by First Nations people, regarding incarcerations and mistreatment.

Sex, descriptions of sex (strong)
A character has their first queer experience with a rent boy. Sex work is depicted in the play, and some characters judge this negatively. The play also contains overtly sexual language, as one character asks to see another character's penis, make references to being penetrated, and racially inferred references to 'big black cock'.

The Pool
By Steve Rodgers
Directed by Kate Champion

This production contains mature themes and coarse language.

Please note the following content warnings may contain spoilers.

Body shaming, fat shaming (mild)
Character speaks of dealing with self confidence issues to do with their body in a swimsuit when they are younger.

Child abuse, child neglect (mild)
A plot line involving a swim instructor being proud of a young swim student and kissing her on the cheek out of excitement, lands him in and his colleague in a difficult position. A character speaks of being kicked out of home by their parents when they were 17, and being slapped by their father after almost drowning in Green's Pool when they were very young.

Death, murder, drowning, death threats, poisoning (mild)
A character jokes about throwing themselves in the water and drowning themselves. At another time a character in the play tells a story of almost drowning as an infant at Green's Pool in Denmark.

Drugs, depiction of someone on drugs (mild)
A character who is a recovering drug addict mentions some of the drugs they've been addicted to in the past; Codeine, Demerol.

Eating disorder, anorexia, bulimia, disordered eating (mild)
A character speaks about difficulty in the past with liking their body, and subsequent eating disorder which followed from that. "I stopped eating, I starved myself, or I threw up after eating, I found myself a proper eating disorder."

Mental illness (mild)
Character living with diagnosed depression represented.

Medical procedures, hospitalisation (mild)
Mentions of Cancer treatments and hospitalisation, also mentions of treatment needed to address a prolapsed vagina.

Terminal illness, cancer (mild)
Multiple references to cancer.

Trauma, PTSD, victim blaming (mild)
Character suffering possible trauma from incident of almost drowning as a child.

Violence, physical assault (mild)
Mention of a child biting an adult on the arm and drawing blood

Audience interaction (mild)
Possible audience interaction for those who have selected to take part at point of purchase.