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…
The Pantaloons Present: Sense and Sensibility, Pantaloons Theatre Company, Norwich Theatre Playhouse, June 2025
Visually impaired audience members are invited to attend the Enhance performance of ‘The Pantaloons Present: Sense and Sensibility’ by Pantaloons Theatre Company at Norwich Theatre Playhouse on Friday 20th June, 7:30pm.
7 free tickets are available from Extant for visually impaired and blind adults to attend the Programme Notes and Touch Tour at 6:30pm, followed by the performance at 7:30pm.
Venue address: Norwich Theatre Playhouse, 42-58 St. George’s Street, Norwich NR3 1AB
Email [email protected] and [email protected] to request free tickets, with your phone number and access requirements. Tickets are prioritised for visually impaired adults.
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