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.

Norwich

Much Ado About Nothing, HandleBards- Wednesday 17th September

An illustrated poster of two people on a joint bike dressed in Elizabethan costumes. On the left the cyclist wears yellow and orange colours, on the right, the cyclist wears a blue and orange. On the ground, in text is 'Much Ado About Nothing'.

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/

Liverpool

Romeo & Juliet, Ellie Hurt – Wednesday 1st October

A close up of two people’s faces as they smile at each other, shot in all black environment. The person on the right is cradling the other persons face. Their faces are illuminated by an orange spotlight.

Romeo & Juliet, directed by Ellie Hurt, Liverpool Everyman, October 2025

Meet Extant – 5-6pm

Pre-show Programme Notes and Touch Tour – 6:30pm.

Performance – 7:30pm.

Venue: Liverpool Everyman

United by passion but forced apart by their families, Romeo and Juliet are young lovers who must transform their present to forge a beautiful tomorrow. But with their feuding households locked in a deep-rooted cycle of violence and hate, is it possible to win the loved-up future they crave?

We are offering free tickets to visually impaired audiences on a first come first served basis for this performance. Email [email protected] and [email protected] to request a free ticket, and include any access requirements as well as a phone number.

Show information: https://everymanplayhouse.com/enhance-romeo-juliet/

Upcoming Programme notes:

Please note these documents may contains spoilers.

Much Ado About Nothing Programme Notes

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