timjukes, Author at EXTANT

Early bird offer!

Posted on: 3 Mar 2014

Special ticket offer for the World Premiere and tour of our new production, The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco, 16 April – 2 May 2014.

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Final few places for Dance Programme

Posted on: 29 Jan 2014

Final few places left on our fantastic dance programme for visually impaired adults.

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In memory of Sandy Easton

Posted on: 27 Jan 2014

We are saddened at the tragic loss of an Extant performer, member and friend

Aerial Alloy: innovating audio description

Posted on: 12 Dec 2013

Aerial Alloy, a recent three-day R/D project for Liberty Festival, explored aerial work, music, storytelling and alternative approaches to audio description with collaborators from Upswing and Yellow Earth Theatre.

Black and white head shots of Juliet Stevenson

Our new patrons

Posted on: 30 Oct 2013

We are delighted to announce that Juliet Stevenson, CBE and Clive Merrison are now patrons of Extant.

Our survey said…

Posted on: 28 Oct 2013

Huge thanks to our respondents who completed our summer survey, with interesting responses about how visually impaired people interact with social media.

All the Radio Play participants and staff group together

Radio Play broadcast

Posted on: 27 Oct 2013

Tune into Aculco Radio at 5pm on Monday 4th November to hear the fantastic and funny play Side Track: written and performed by the young participants in our recent Radio Play project.

Something strange is going on…

Posted on: 1 Oct 2013

The news has recently been awash with stories of miracle treatments for blindness, from stemcells, to lasers and wonder implants in the eye. Many sound too bizarre to be true – but only one is an entirely fictional creation dreamed up as part of Extant's new experimental online project, codenamed #Eyez.

Radio Play – now recruiting!

Posted on: 15 May 2013

We are now recruiting for young visually impaired people aged 16-30 years to participate in a project called Radio Play starting 8 June. It's a great opportunity to develop devising, improvisation and writing skills, and will lead to the recording of the scripted work for broadcast via Aculco Radio.

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New Sheer images

Posted on: 1 Aug 2012

We've added some great new images from our recent horror/burlesque performance

robotics specialist Adam Spiers shows the haptic lotus to visitors at his stand at the symposium. The visitors are holding the lotuses

The Question and haptics update

Posted on: 17 May 2012

The Haptic Lotus, which Extant used in The Question, was well-received at the Haptics Symposium in Vancouver in March.

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Thanks for helping us make Sheer a success

Posted on: 17 May 2012

Thank you to everyone who came to experience Sheer in London or Wolverhampton. The show was a success, with all four London shows sold out and strong audiences in Wolverhampton.