theatre

Review: As You Like It? I loved it

Our volunteer Sylvia reviews the performance of Strictly winner and deaf actress Rose Ayling-Ellis in her West End debut playing Celia in As You Like It. She also shares some useful information about accessing theatre if you have hearing loss.

Short-course in theatre making – London

A short-course covering the art of theatre making both off and on stage will take place in London this October. It is targeted at 17-30 year olds who are looking for a career in the arts industry and who are deaf, disabled or faced other barriers due to their access requirements not being met. The […]

Blog: Cinema and theatre in Buxton

Hearing Link volunteer John Newton writes about subtitles at his local cinema in Buxton.

National Theatre in London introduces smart caption glasses

Starting from this autumn, the National Theatre in London will be offering D/deaf audience members the chance to book a pair of augmented reality glasses (or Smart Caption Glasses) which project subtitles onto the lenses. Initially the glasses will be on offer for Hadestown and War Horse, but the National plans to roll the glasses out for […]

Volunteer takes part in experimental theatre performance

‘Living with the Volcano’: Arts accessibility made manifest at Edinburgh Multi-Artform Venue A Hearing Link volunteer has taken part in an experimental theatre performance in Edinburgh. Ann Thallon, who has a severe hearing loss, worked intensively with musician/theatre maker Greg Sinclair and visual artist Kate Temple to develop and share ‘Volcano’. The project was funded […]

Captioning Awareness Week 2017

This week marks the third annual Captioning Awareness Week (6th-11th November) run by the charity Stagetext. The organisation is asking you to be a Caption Hero in a bid to raise awareness of captioning to people with hearing loss across the UK. There are different ways you can become a Caption hero: Attend a captioned […]

UK theatre to trial subtitling glasses technology

The National Theatre is to trial new augmented reality glasses with the aim of providing subtitles to deaf and hard of hearing audience members. There is much potential in this technology and it is great to see it finally arrive in the UK. With some refinements, it could go along way to providing true equality […]