Posts by Sula Gleeson
West Yorkshire Playhouse – BSL access
We here at Signed Culture, feel we have to highlight the hard work the WYP are doing to promote their BSL accessible shows. They have a video in their website that gives all the information about the upcoming season of shows – both in written form (within the video), and then with an interpreter providing…
Read MoreProFile: Championing D/deaf and Disabled Performers
In October 2017, the National Theatre (NT) and Spotlight launched ProFile – an online video database of d/Deaf and disabled actors for the use of casting directors, directors and other industry professionals across the UK film, theatre and TV industries. ProFile is a free service both for actors and for industry users, and its aim is to champion this group of…
Read MoreContractions by Mike Bartlett
Deafinitely Theatre’s latest production is coming to an end (29th Nov), but there’s still time to get to see it. There is even a special ticket price to encourage you! (£10.50 by quoting DTNEWS) If that wasn’t enough, the production has recently been nominated for two awards in the Offies – the Off West End…
Read More‘Wonderstruck’ (Oct. 20) the film
A new film about to open in America later this month, features a Deaf child actor. It’s “a complicated love poem to New York City.” In the 1920s, Rose (Simmonds) is a deaf New Jersey girl who runs away to Manhattan to find her Hollywood idol (Julianne Moore), while 50 years later, Ben (Fegley) goes there to…
Read MoreCombating Social Isolation: Chichester Festival Theatre’s Buddies Scheme
It began with a chance conversation with a long-standing member of our audience. She was 92 and loved the theatre but sadly didn’t feel up to coming on her own any more. That got us thinking. So much focus today is on finding the “new” audiences and theatre-makers of the future: at Chichester Festival Theatre…
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