Content Advice

We don’t want to spoil your experience of a play at the Abbey Theatre. Sometimes it is the unexpected moments that our audiences find the most powerful. However, we also know certain themes can cause distress or discomfort. If there is a subject which you are concerned about, please check the detailed content advice below or speak to a member of our Box Office team to find out more about a show before you book.

Dracula: The Hunt

This event contains some adult themes including references to death and some descriptions of violent and/or disturbing events.

The Boy: A Two-Play Theatrical Event 

For thousands of years, Ancient Greek drama has explored challenging and important themes relating to the human experience.

These themes are essential to the narrative of The Boy: A Two-Play Theatrical Event, which brings a contemporary lens to Sophocles’ Theban trilogy of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone.

In telling these stories, The Boy:  A Two-Play Theatrical Event confronts a range of powerful ideas head on.

Themes  include: murder, sexual violence, child abuse, incest, child sacrifice, infanticide, suicide.

BÁN 

BÁN explores the violences that shaped Irish society in the 20th century, and continue to shape it today – from the level of the individual, through the level of the family, to the level of the state and the world. As part of this inquiry, it necessarily deals with confronting subject matter.

This production prominently features the following subjects/themes: alcohol use, familial violence, familial racism, familial/medical neglect, familial ableism, familial coercive control, abortion, miscarriage, and suicide.

This production mentions the following subjects/themes: incestuous abuse, state ableism/eugenics.