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Grand Horizons Show Content Guide

The below description indicates whether there are acts, language or behaviour that may have an impact on some audience members (for example, violence, sex, language, drug use or nudity) and whether those occasions are made reference to, described or enacted.

Please note: the following information also contains ‘spoilers’ which may impact on your experience of the production.

The production of Grand Horizons contains the following scripted descriptions and physical enactment of the following:

Loud noises/gunshots
Significant movement of set/scenery
Dysfunctional/separated families
References to suicide
References to death, aging and dementia
Strong language
Culturally/religiously sensitive commentary
Adultery
Intimacy – kissing/sexual gestures/sexual intercourse/intimate touching
Incest
Violence
Reference to sexual violence

 

Please scroll down for an itemised breakdown of the above warnings:

Loud noises/gunshots

  • In Act 1, Scene 2, there is the sound of sudden gun shots, which are later recognised as coming from the TV next door.
  • In Act 1, Scene 4, at several moments we hear a loud dog bark from across the road.
  • [SPOILERS] In Act 1, Scene 4, there is the loud sound of a rental van starting then crashing into the kitchen wall of the set.
  • In Act 2, Scene 1, there is a loud crash from upstairs from a lamp being tipped over.

Significant movement of set/scenery

  • [SPOILERS] In Act 1, Scene 4, a rental van crashes into the kitchen wall of the set. This moment also includes loud noise and lighting changes, and short use of a smoke machine.

Dysfunctional/separated families

  • In Act 1, Scene 1, Nancy initiates a divorce. Later the divorce is described as a “grenade”.
  • Nancy and Bill verbally abuse each other off and on stage
  • In Act 1, Scene 3, Nancy describes the breakdown of her marriage in front of her son, Brian. The pair discuss the breakdown of the family unit.

References to suicide

  • In Act 1, Scene 2, Ben and Brian imply that their father, Bill, could be intending to harm himself.

References to death, aging and dementia

  • In Act 1, Scene 2, Bill refers to “Rose Court” as an assisted living facility and mentions that death is commonplace there: “Sheila’s started a new book club, Sam and Joan are dead.”
  • In Act 1, Scene 2, Nancy describes sending “dead people’s clothes to refugees”.
  • In Act 1, Scene 3, Jess describes Nancy pretending to have dementia.
  • In Act 1, Scene 3, Tommy refers to the house as “designed so people with Alzheimers can navigate it”.
  • Nancy describes Hal’s mother as having “terrible Alzheimers”
  • In Act 1, Scene 4, while rehearsing Stand-Up material, Bill imagines Nancy saying to him “I hope you die a miserable death”, which Bill makes light of.
  • In Act 2, Scene 1, Carla recounts a story about a woman suffering with Alzheimer’s

Strong language

  • Frequent use of expletives across the text. Some non-exhaustive examples include:
    • In Act 1, Scene 3, Tommy reprimands Brian, saying “You’re a fucking baby”.
    • In Act 1, Scene 4, Ben shouts, “Give me the fucking phone”.

Culturally/religiously sensitive commentary

  • In Act 1, Scene 2, Bill tells a joke about St Peter with sexual references to nuns.

Adultery

  • In Act 1, Scene 3, Nancy describes an affair between Bill and Carla in detail. As part of this description, Nancy refers to “sexting”.
  • Nancy also describes the details of a romantic and sexual affair between herself and Hal
  • In Act 1, Scene 4, Ben confronts Bill about “sexting” with Carla.
  • In Act 2. Scene 2, Brian publicly describes explicit details of Nancy’s affair with Hal.

Intimacy – kissing/sexual gestures/sexual intercourse/intimate touching

  • In Act 1, Scene 2, Jess suggests Nancy & Bill could explore fantasy and roleplay.
  • In Act 1, Scene 3, Brian and Tommy make out (enacted). There is minimal suggestive touching around the upper body.
  • In Act 1, Scene 3, Nancy describes a sexual encounter between herself and Hal, to her son, Brian.
  • In Act 2, Scene 1, Carla and Nancy discuss and describe various sexual encounters.
  • In Act 2, Scene 2, Ben briefly describes incorporating baby talk into sexual role play.

Incest

  • In Act 1, Scene 3, As part of the pair’s roleplay Tommy and Brian become confused about their fantasy relationship. Brian suggests they could be brothers being caught by their parents.

Violence

  • In Act 1, Scene 4, Ben wrestles Bills phone away from him.
  • In Act 2, Scene 2, Bill enters with a broken leg, & his arm in a sling.

Reference to sexual violence

  • In Act 2, Scene 2, Brian lists possible consequences of Nancy’s decision, and makes passing mention to sexual violence.