Content and Trigger Warnings for Dogfight

Content Warnings
DOGFIGHT explores the following dramatic themes:

  • Sexism, misogyny, and toxic masculinity
  • Body shaming, body hatred, and fat phobia
  • Silent racism
  • Transphobia and trans misogyny
  • Sexual assault
  • Abuse of women
  • Violence
  • Death or dying
  • Mental illness, PTSD, and ableism
  • Hateful language
  • Heterosexism

 

Trigger Warnings
This production of DOGFIGHT will feature:

  • Haze and fog effects
  • Strobes and other intense lighting effects
  • Loud sounds (including gun fire and explosions)
  • Staging suggestive of mild romantic intimacy
  • Depictions of the mockery of women
  • Depictions of the mockery sex workers (including trans sex workers)
  • Depictions of the mockery of the U.S. civil rights movement
  • Depictions of physical assault
  • Depictions of war, death, and dying (related to war)
  • Depictions of the mockery of U.S. military servicemen
  • Depictions of severe PTSD

 

This production is emotionally, intellectually, and socially challenging. Talkbacks will be offered following select performances for any audience members who wish to unpack the events depicted.

Dogfight performing information (with talkback dates)