News and Opportunities - Page 17 of 19

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.

A close up shot of woman in a burlesque costume wearing a mask. It has large eyes with painted on eyelashes and hugely inflated red lips.

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.

Sheer promotional poster with the text 'Sheer' broken across page and a shaft of light highlighting a woman

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.

Sheer discussed on Radio 4

Posted on: 23 Mar 2012

Tony Shearman from BBC Radio 4’s In Touch came to experience Sheer in Wolverhampton

Screengrab of video - a blue mist/fog is all that is shown

Sheer Sneak Peak video

Posted on: 23 Mar 2012

Do you want a sneak peak of what will be revealed when you come to experience Sheer?

Last chance to experience Sheer!

Posted on: 23 Mar 2012

Sheer's last two shows are on April 3 & 4 at artsdepot, North Finchley, London.

four young performers in sequinned costumes take a bow

New youth theatre project Forum 4us

Posted on: 22 Feb 2012

Extant is setting up a new Young Adults Forum Theatre Project. Could this be for you?

Publicity photograph. Woman illuminated in electric blue light is pointed at.

New production: Sheer

Posted on: 23 Jan 2012

For its 15 year anniversary, Extant, the UK’s only professional performing arts company of visually impaired people, presents Sheer. Extant takes its company of outstanding blind artists and blends burlesque, comedy and horror, to create a thrilling and unique moment where immersion meets experience. Three trainers attend a seminar where things are not as they […]

Head-shot of young black actor and director Stefan Davis

Extant presents Blood Sweat and Fears by Maria Oshodi at Exploring the Canon 2

Posted on: 8 Nov 2011

Extant presents a reading of Maria Oshodi's moving and highly successful 1986 play 'Blood Sweat and Fears' at 'Exploring the Canon 2', This event, to be held on Wednesday 16 November from 10am-4pm at The RNT's Cottesloe Theatre , celebrates the work of BAME artists and is organised by The London Hub