Enhance Productions 2025-26
Visually impaired access has been created for these shows post-production, devised by an Extant visually impaired facilitator. This is not audio description, but instead an ‘enhanced’ way of providing access that has been tried and tested by Extant.
In 2025-26 we’re working with Battersea Arts Centre (London), Live Theatre (Newcastle), Norwich Theatre (Norwich), Liverpool Everyman (Liverpool), Attenborough Arts Centre (Leicester) and ZOO venues (Edinburgh). They will receive our Visual Impairment Awareness Training and we will be working with 18 companies to create Enhance shows.
Each performance will have a pre-show delivery of Enhanced programme notes and Touch Tour. The notes encapsulate the visual aspects of the show and are written with access for visually impaired audiences at the core. The Touch Tour offers exploration of set, props and costume: offering an immersive space in which to imagine the work before the show begins.
Coming up…
Norwich
Much Ado About Nothing, HandleBards- Wednesday 17th September
Much Ado About Nothing, HandleBards, Norwich Theatre Playhouse, September 2025
Pre-show Programme Notes and Touch Tour – 6pm.
Performance – 7:30pm.
Venue: Norwich Theatre Playhouse
The HandleBards are a four-strong troupe of actors who are spending the summer bringing environmentally sustainable Shakespeare to venues across the UK.
Join the troupe at Norwich Theatre Playhouse for a bicycle-powered production of Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ like you’ve never seen before. In usual HandleBards style, expect riotous amounts of energy, a fair old whack of chaos, and a great deal of laughter.
Standard tickets, £18, concessions available
Purchase tickets here: https://norwichtheatre.org/whats-on/the-handlebards-much-ado-about-nothing/
Upcoming Programme notes:
Please note these documents may contains spoilers.
Enhance shows 2025-26:
- Small Town Boys, Shaper/Caper, ZOO Venues, August 2025
- I Think It Could Work, Full Out Formula, ZOO Venues, August 2025
- Big Little Sister, Holly Gifford, ZOO Venues, August 2025
- Sense and Sensibility, Pantaloons Theatre Company, Norwich Theatre, June 2025
Enhance shows 2024-25:
- Tiny Fragments of Beautiful Light, Derby Theatre & Alphabetti Theatre, February 2025
- Fluff, Teepee Productions, The Courtyard, Hereford, February 2025
- A Christmas Carol: The Musical, Hope Theatre Mill, The Lowry, Manchester, December 2024
- What the Dickens? The Telling, Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton, November 2024
- Going for Gold, Come for Gold Productions, Arena & Park Theatre, London November 2024
- Why A Black Woman Will Never Be Prime Minister, Zakkiyah Deen, Camden People’s Theatre, November 2024.
- A Battered Chip On My Shoulder, Dave Pitt, Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton, November 2024
- Edy Hurst’s Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Himself, The Lowry, Manchester, October 2024
- Do Not Play This Piano, Will Pickvance, The Courtyard, Hereford, October 2024
- As I Am Naturally, The Lowry, Manchester, September 2024
- The Nurse’s Station, Alphabetti Theatre, Newcastle, September 2024
- Grills, Mirrorball, Camden People’s Theatre, London, June 2024.
- English Kings Killing Foreigners, REALFAKE Theatre, Camden People’s Theatre, London, May 2024
- Pepper & Honey, Notnow Collective, The Courtyard, Hereford, May 2024
In 2024-25 we worked with with The Lowry (Salford), The Courtyard (Hereford), Arena Theatre (Wolverhampton), Camden People’s Theatre (London), Alphabetti Theatre (Newcastle) and Derby Theatre (Derby).
Quick-read information about Extant and Enhance: Enhance Flyer