
Eye Say, Eye Say, Eye Say!
Posted on: 16 Oct 2020
At the Bloomsbury Festival
Saturday 17 October 2020, 6pm show-time
Posted on: 16 Oct 2020
At the Bloomsbury Festival
Saturday 17 October 2020, 6pm show-time
Posted on: 11 Sep 2020
The Government has recently confirmed that blind and partially sighted people in England can be guided from someone outside their household. This follows recent government advice from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland which also confirms sighted guiding can go ahead. If you need sighted guiding from family or friends who live in different households, the RNIB have […]
Read morePosted on: 4 Sep 2020
Extant is the UK’s leading professional performing arts company of visually impaired artists and theatre practitioners, producing touring productions and delivering training regionally and internationally. The company aims to redress invisibility of blind and partially sighted artists and explore new creative territories. It is a dynamic, political space to articulate and celebrate what visual impairment […]
Read morePosted on: 14 Jul 2020
PC David Rathband was shot and blinded in Durham by escaped prisoner Raoul Moat in July 2010 – A decade on, in July 2020, Extant launched an interactive Zoom cast of ‘Rathband’ by writer Christopher Hogg, hosted by visually impaired actor, Robin Paley Yorke. Robin was an eye witness of the fateful event that […]
Read morePosted on: 7 Jul 2020
Formed in 1997, Extant was the inspired name chosen by a group of professional visually impaired artists, for the emergence of a new dynamic space, intended to redress our invisibility as artists and explore new creative territories. Over the past two decades, we have produced groundbreaking theatre by and for visually impaired performers and audiences, […]
Read morePosted on: 7 Jul 2020
Eye Say, what do you get when over a dozen visually impaired comedians come together? Eye Say, Eye Say, Eye Say! On Monday 1 June we held a comedy night via Zoom to launch over a dozen visually impaired comedians aching to spin their take on life under lockdown, Black Lives Matter, the tyranny of […]
Read morePosted on: 3 Jul 2020
Pathways is a four-year programme, funded by Arts Council England. We have also received funding from Ulverscroft, and The Leathersellers Company. Pathways is a tailor-made professional development training programme for visually impaired theatre practitioners. Extant wants to nurture and develop this talent, in order for visually impaired artists (actors, directors, writers and backstage technicians) to […]
Read morePosted on: 8 Apr 2020
These three summer online workshops will offer our Pathways Directors the chance to explore stimuli, research accompanying themes – and build ideas for our proposed face-to-face masterclass intensive in the Autumn. Tim Etchell’s work has spanned 36 years with Forced Entertainment; as well as his independent work as a visual artist, writer and performance maker. […]
Read morePosted on: 8 Apr 2020
Ai Takita-Lucas joins Artistic Director Maria Oshodi, editor and producer Nic Sandiland, animator Dave Packer, and designer Tim Jukes on the exciting, unique and accessible creative development for the Digital Flight Paths interactive online experience. View Ai’s work – https://dokoteiinko.wixsite.com/inkoredible View Dave’s work – https://sheepfilms.co.uk/ We’ll be sharing more fascinating updates on Digital Flight Paths over the […]
Read morePosted on: 24 Feb 2020
We are thrilled to have received a commission from The Space to create a new and innovative online reworking of our acclaimed 2019 touring production Flight Paths! Combined movement, music, narrative and creative audio description using new sound technology, Flight Paths is inspired by the Goze of medieval Japan – blind itinerant female storytellers who journeyed around the […]
Read morePosted on: 22 Jan 2020
Our blind and visually impaired No Dramas! workshop participants had a ball of a time at the Duck Duck Goose improv jam in Brixton last month! If you’re looking for more improvised fun, head along to their weekly events, held every Monday 8 – 10.30pm at Effra Social, Brixton. For more information, visit their website […]
Read morePosted on: 17 Jan 2020
Review by Stephen Portlock Camden Peoples Theatre10th – 21st December 2019 She Goat’s The Undefineable to me suggested horror a la John Carpenter’s The Thing, and while I had been disavowed of this assumption by the publicity blurb, I still expected something if not gothic then at least a little decadent. That was unfortunate because there was much to enjoy […]
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