Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha

Detailed Content Warnings:

• Some cast members enter and exit through the audience, on the right. At the top of Act 2, cast members entering through the audience are singing.
• Treemonisha’s mother is shot during the overture (no gun is visible).
• There are threats of violence, specific mentions of beating and killing.
• There are quick music changes and fast tempos.
• Prop shears are used onstage.
• Mention of character death by hanging.
• Mention of Treemonisha’s mother being shot.
• Mention of child being abandoned.
• Mention of parental death.
• Mention of child being adopted without their knowledge.
• Mention of “real” mother versus adoptive mother.
• Themes of misogyny throughout Act 1 - specific song mentions that wives are meant to obey their husbands.
• Some quick lighting changes.
• Runaway bride.
• Small cauldron is carried onstage with smoke (unscented).
• There is haze used throughout the performance.
• There is a large prop rifle used to shoot a character onstage - loud gunshot.
• There are several large prop machetes used.