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…

For the Enhance performance of Romeo & Juliet, we are offering free tickets to visually impaired audiences on a first come first served basis for this performance. Find out more below.

London

Syncopated, Liverpool Everyman Playhouse & Talawa Theatre Company- Saturday 18th October.

A landscape banner. A man and woman stare into the distance. In front of them are gates with locks attached and a river. The banner displays birds in the distance and writing scattered over pages. Black text, which reads 'Syncopated' and 'By Varaidzo' is displayed and a treble clef symbol.

Syncopated, Liverpool Everyman & Talawa, October 2025

Pre-show Programme Notes and Touch Tour – 1:30pm

Performance – 2:30pm.

Venue: Fairfield Halls

Love stories can happen anywhere. In the present or the past, in the head or the heart. But when Him and Her meet by chance at the Liverpool docks and unearth the hidden history of the Southern Syncopated Orchestra – the original jazz pioneers – could this be the start of something new, or are they stuck repeating another love story from a hundred years earlier?

Tickets: £16.96

Purchase tickets here: https://www.talawa.com/productions/syncopated

Upcoming Programme notes:

Please note these documents may contains spoilers.

Enhance shows 2025-26:

Romeo & Juliet, Liverpool Everyman Playhouse, October 2025
Much Ado About Nothing, Handlebards, Norwich Theatre, September 2025
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