Accessible Performances at the Theatre Royal
As part of the See A Voice project the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds is now offering accessible performances.
Forthcoming attractions are:
A captioned presentation of ‘12th Night’
on Saturday March 14th at 2pm
Love is in the air but with all the mix-ups, mishaps and meddling that ensue, fantasy is about to get a harsh dose of reality. This magical new production of Shakespeare’s bittersweet comedy Twelfth Night brings the paradoxical world of Illyria to exuberant life – a world where nothing and nobody are quite as they appear.
A glorious mix of song, bawdy humour, drunken antics and high-flown passions, Twelfth Night will surprise audiences new to the play and delight those returning to it.
“If music be the food of love, play on…”
An audio-described presentation of ‘Relatively Speaking’
by Alan Ayckbourn on Saturday 4th April at 2pm
From the pen of a master comes one of his earliest and funniest creations. Greg loves Ginny and Ginny loves Greg. Marriage is mentioned and a trip to meet the in-laws in the countryside is an obvious step to take. And yet Ginny resists. Philip and Sheila live slightly irritably yet peacefully in the countryside. Little disturbs their gently decaying descent towards their sunset years. Then Greg and Ginny arrive.
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Captioning gives deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people access to live performances. Captioning converts the spoken word into text, which is displayed on a caption unit or units situated on or next to the stage. As well as dialogue, the captions also include the name of the character who is speaking or singing and descriptions of any sound effects.
Audio description in theatre is a live verbal commentary providing information on the visual elements of a production as it unfolds. From sets, props, costumes, to actors’ facial expressions and movements across the stage: the description is delivered during the quieter moments of a performance via headphones. This will enable more audience members to enjoy a visit to their local theatre without the need to ask someone to explain what is happening, they can laugh along with the rest of the audience, and can all sit together in their family.
For more information visit their website: www.theatreroyal.org
