By booking a place at this event, you are agreeing to abide by the following code of conduct, in line with our interpretation and implementation of it, and to roleplay in accordance with the event themes. These are rules; if you don’t think you can keep to them, please do not sign-up for the event.
Code of conduct
Initially based on Snakepit Games Policy Handbook v 1.0 by Doug Kohler, licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, and including updates made to 0.5.5 by Amy Flowers and Dave Proctor in 2018
You should:
- Try to refer to mixed gender groups with gender-inclusive language
- Respect other people if they ask you to stop doing something
- Let the producer know if someone or something is making you feel uncomfortable
You must not:
- Discriminate against others based on out-of-character attributes (including: age, physical appearance, sex and/or gender identities including transgender status, race, culture, disability, neurodivergence, nationality, religion, parental status, breastfeeding choices, class or social status, sexuality or relationship choices.)
- Use derogatory or bigoted language based on out-of-character attributes
- Interfere with another participant’s belongings or accessibility aids
- Criticise someone for using accessibility aids eg. wheelchair
- Sexually harass other participants
- Make references to certain unacceptable themes
- Use illegal substances on site.
- Film or photograph others without their consent
- Attempt to avoid responsibility for your actions, including by claiming they were in character
We will:
- Take all complaints seriously and act on them based on our best judgement
- Respect the wishes of any complainant about involving external bodies such as the police unless we believe there is a serious risk of imminent harm in doing so
- Keep a log of all complaints accessible only to the producer
- Keep your information confidential, especially around complaints
- Respect the wishes of any participant for any reasonable adjustment needed to improve accessibility
If you break this policy, we can:
- Offer you a warning and/or discuss the situation with you
- Ban you from attending future events
- Ask you to leave the event
- Take legal action, if the situation is sufficiently serious
We reserve the right to refuse a booking from any person without giving a reason. We will collaborate with police if we have reason to believe a crime has been committed.
Complaints
Any attendee is welcome to bring a complaint to the producer who will be clearly identified throughout the event. Complaints can be on behalf of yourself or somebody else.
Event themes
Core themes
These themes will be very hard to avoid entirely. We will able to cast you as a character who’s less affected by a theme, but they will appear in other characters’ play.
- Death of someone close, a family member or lover for example
- Definition of self
- Gender flexibility
- Romantic love
- …essentially, anything that happens in one or more of our source plays and is not explicitly excluded below.
Possible themes
The following themes should be roleplayed with care, with an awareness that they may distress other players. Specifically, some people might prefer to avoid them. Please be careful to give people space to use our safety mechanics to ask to change topic, and make sure they can leave the space gracefully.
- Consensual sexual contact
- Discrimination on the basis of in-character attributes: age, class or social status, nationality, sex and/or gender identity, or relationship choices.
- Infanticide (i.e. the intentional killing of an infant – aged 12 months or less – should a player choose a character from The Winter’s Tale)
- Mental illness
- Physical abuse (i.e. during a relationship, should a player choose a character from Taming of the Shrew.)
- References to real-world religions and cultures
- Self-harm and suicide
We will covering meta-techniques for roleplaying around consensual sexual contact and physical abuse in workshops before the game.
Unacceptable themes
These Unacceptable Themes should not appear in the game in any way. They will not be in backgrounds or briefs, and players must not make any reference to them as part of their roleplay.
- Abortion
- Discrimination on the basis of any out-of-character attribute previously described: age, physical appearance, sex and/or gender identities including transgender status, race, culture, disability, neurodivergence, nationality, religion, parental status, breastfeeding choices, class or social status, sexuality or relationship choices. (We understand many of these are themes in one or more plays, but none will not be included in the game.)
- Discrimination on the basis of in-character attributes: physical appearance, transgender status, race, culture, disability, neurodivergence, religion, parental status, breastfeeding choices, or sexuality.
- Eating disorders (such as anorexia, bulimia, etc)
- Miscarriage and stillbirth
- Non-consensual sex (We understand this is a theme in some of the plays, but it will not be included in the game.)
- Sex involving minors (We understand that this is a possible theme of Romeo and Juliet, but it will not be included in the game.)
- Slavery, particularly around the Atlantic Slave Trade.
The lists of potentially distressing themes are not exhaustive and are based on our experiences. If there is something not listed as a Core or Possible theme you would like added to the list of Unacceptable Themes to make your game more comfortable, please email me.
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