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War Horse well worth the wait
I had wanted to see War Horse since I first heard that it was being shown in the West End in 2009. It seemed like there were so many performances of it at the time that I never got round to seeing it...
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Accessibility at Trafalgar Studios: Insanity at the Hothouse
Last night I went to see a performance of ‘The Hothouse’ at the Trafalgar Studios in London with my wife Joanna, which had live captioning by STAGETEXT. I found out that this play was going to be on a...
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Clarence House: an accessible Royal tour
Yesterday my wife Joanna and I went on a guided tour of Clarence House in London for D/deaf and hard of hearing people. It was organised by the Royal Collection Trust as an accessible tour for deaf and...
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Propaganda: Power & Persuasion – innovative remote speech-to-text tour
This week I attended a landmark event with my wife Joanna. We went to a guided tour of the British Library’s ‘Propaganda: Power and Persuasion’ exhibition, which was made accessible by STAGETEXT via...
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All My Sons at the Royal Exchange: captioning restores passion for the theatre
This week I took my step-father Brian to see his first captioned theatre performance, something we’d all been looking forward to for a long time. Brian is a regular theatre-goer in his seventies and...
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Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom: Access and Equality at the Cinema
I really wanted to go and see the new film about Nelson Mandela called ‘Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom’ ever since I first heard about it a few weeks ago. But it proved to be a real challenge...
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My Discovery of Access and Human Rights
I never really thought about human rights issues or equality before I lost my hearing. I didn’t think these issues affected me personally. My life then revolved around making money, watching football,...
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Churchill’s Chartwell and Rawson’s Legacy
As a late deafened adult, losing my hearing quite suddenly at the age of thirty-nine, I hadn’t learned how to lipread until then as there was no need. It was not something that had ever even crossed my...
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Kevin Spacey as Clarence Darrow: spellbinding!
I recently saw one of the finest, if not the finest, pieces of acting I have ever seen in my entire life! It was Kevin Spacey playing Clarence Darrow at the Old Vic Theatre in London in the play of...
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February’s highlights: Access to the arts in action
I’ve been to see some great plays and art exhibitions this month, which have proved to me once again how important great access to theatre and the arts is to deaf and disabled people. At the beginning...
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