The following is a list of sensory and content warnings for the play WILD/CAUGHT. Please use this information take care of yourself.
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General Content Advisory
Workplace sexual harassment
Sensory Warnings
- Lights:
- Potential strobe lights (1 sec increments when guillotine is sliced)
- Strobe lights sequence (Gore death scene)
- Red wash, white strobes
- Red wash, white strobes
- Sound:
- Pg 27: Kristen screams in surprise
- Pg 37: Gore’s scream as he dies
- Throughout: Gore’s voice may be auditorily grating
- Throughout: Repetitive factory bell rings for a few seconds at a time
Workplace sexual harassment
- Pg 8: Boss makes a comment sexualizing a young female employee (may not be heard by audience)
- Pg 9: Workers briefly discuss the boss’ past sexualization of young employees
- Pg 16: Workers worry about Kristin’s safety as she is in a private meeting with their boss
- Pg 18: Hope alludes that she was sexually harassed at this job when she was young and suggests that they should all just
- Pg 23: Boss makes a comment sexualizing a young female employee (may not be heard by audience)
- Pg 32-33: Boss makes unsolicited romantic advances on a young female employee (boss’ dialogue may not be heard by audience)
- Pg 36-38: Attempted rape (sexualizing comments from boss- may not be heard, followed by a scuffle between Kristin and an imaginary character)
- Unseen character grabs Kristen’s arm, Kristen shoves him into the unseen guillotine, where he is decapitated (all violence non-graphic and pantomimed)
Animal Butchering
- Animal butchering
- Throughout: Workers discuss and pantomime processing fish for canning, with visible kitchen knives
- Pg 9-10: Workers explain the process of cutting up the salmon, using a prop salmon with non-realistic guts/flesh
- Pg 27: Workers pull “worms” out of sick salmon (non-graphic) and mention that the salmon are full of holes
Discussion of deportation
- Pg 5: Workers mention that an old coworker is no longer employed nor in the country
- Pg 11-13: Workers discuss the deportation of an old coworker due to workplace retaliation, along with their own fears of deportation
Vomiting
- Pg 10: Kristin vomits into a bucket.
- Pg 18-19: Vomiting sounds (facing away from audience)
- Pg 19: Brief discussion of pregnancy morning sickness
Fatphobia/Derogatory comments about weight
- Pg 14-15: Derogatory comments about employee’s weight made by boss (may not be heard by audience)
Mention of pregnancy
- Pg 16: Characters allude to Maria being pregnant
- Pg 19: Brief discussion of pregnancy morning sickness
Violence/Death
- Pg 15: Maria uses her knife to pantomime her desire to harm Gore
- Pg 20: Mention of men dying in war and not returning home
- Pg 24: Mention of wartime injury
- Pg 37: Unseen character grabs Kristen’s arm, Kristen shoves him into the unseen guillotine, where he is decapitated (all violence non-graphic and pantomimed)
- Pg 39: Workers pantomime butchering Gore as if he is a fish. Fake blood is applied to their faces. It is implied that the workers put Gore’s chopped up body into cans.
Injury
- Pg 34: Hope’s finger dislocates, Kristen snaps the finger back in place