Audio Description: All Plays
This is theatre for everyone. Any time, anywhere.
Audio Description allows blind and partially sighted audiences to experience theatre. It is a live verbal commentary providing information on the visual elements of a production as it unfolds.
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Audio Description: End
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This is the audio described version of End.
Life has been one of music, laughter and good memories. But, with an agonising occasion approaching, Alfie and Julie must reflect on a life well spent together.
End is the ‘beautiful conclusion’ (Daily Telegraph) of David Eldridge’s trilogy explorin...
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Audio Description: The Importance of Being Earnest
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This is the audio described version of The Importance of Being Earnest.
A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
Being sensible can be excessively boring. At least Jack thinks so.
While assuming the role of dutiful guardian in the country, he lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, ...
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Audio Description: Inter Alia
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This is the audio described version of Inter Alia.
Jessica Parks is a judge, a mother, a wife, a friend. Her career exists inter alia (among other things). How will one unthinkable event pull into question all aspects of her life?
Following their global phenomenon Prima Facie, the ‘dream creat...
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Audio Description: Bacchae
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This is the audio described version of Bacchae.
The women of the Bacchae will not be ignored
Fierce and unstoppable, the Bacchae are a chorus of wild energy ready to shake Thebes to its core - and liberate its women.
But their god Dionysos has his own reckoning. In a showdown with his cousin,...
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Audio Description: One Man, Two Guvnors
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This is the audio described version of One Man, Two Guvnors.
Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect £6,000 from the dad of his fiancée.
But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead b... -
Audio Description: The Land of the Living
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This is the audio described version of The Land of the Living
‘All my life – all your life – I’ve struggled with this: was what I did “wrong”?’
The Land of the Living is a powerful historical drama set in Germany in 1945, in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Thomas, one of thous...
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Audio Description: Next to Normal
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This is the audio described version of Next to Normal
Next to Normal is an intimate exploration of family and illness, loss and grief. At its heart is Caissie Levy as Diana Goodman, a suburban wife and mother living with bipolar disorder and haunted by her past.
Michael Longhurst directs this...
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Audio Description: GOOD
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This is the audio described version of GOOD.
David Tennant (Doctor Who) makes a much-anticipated return to the West End in a blistering reimagining of one of Britain’s most powerful, political plays.
As the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a good, intelligent German professor, f...
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Audio Description: The Estate
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This is the audio described version of The Estate
Being the favourite comes at a price
The leader of the opposition has been forced to resign in a scandal. Against the odds Angad Singh emerges as the favourite.
He could win, he could make history, he could really change things – as long as ...
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Audio Description: Ķīn
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This is the audio described version of Ķīn.
In 1932, Leah and her family escaped persecution and embarked on a journey from Yemen to Palestine.
Ninety years later, her grandson Amit Lahav (Artistic Director of Gecko) reflects on the life-changing decision his family made to flee and build a b...
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Audio Description: Phaedra
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This is the audio described version of Phaedra.
After years of fierce focus on her political career, a politician turns her attention to her personal life. The reappearance of a figure from her past shakes the foundations of her house and the beliefs that have underpinned her power.
As buried l...
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Audio Description: Dr. Strangelove
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This is the audio described version of Dr. Strangelove.
Seven-time BAFTA Award-winner Steve Coogan (Alan Partridge, The Trip) plays four roles in the world premiere stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove.
When a rogue U.S General triggers a nuclear attack, a s...
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Audio Description: The Brightening Air
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This is the audio described version of The Brightening Air.
How much of living is really just forgetting?
The family home is more than merely a building. It can be a destination of pilgrimage, an inherited investment, a repository of memory or even magic.
And, for brother and sister Stephen ...
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Audio Description: Retrograde
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This is the audio described version of Retrograde.
Sidney Poitier: Trailblazer, Activist, Icon.
Hollywood’s so-called Golden Age. Ten years before becoming the first Black man to win an Oscar, a young Sidney Poitier arrives to sign a life-changing contract that could make him a star. But there...
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Audio Description: Mosquitoes
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This is the audio described version of Mosquitoes.
In 2008, as the Large Hadron Collider searches for the Higgs boson, tragedy throws two sisters together. The collision threatens them all with chaos.
Olivia Colman and Olivia Williams play the sisters in this drama from writer Lucy Kirkwood. ...
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Audio Description: Alterations
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This is the audio described version of Alterations.
‘Is that what you want? To be an underdog all your life?’
Walker Holt has big dreams for his tailor’s shop, and an even bigger order to complete. Over the course of 24 hours he must work tirelessly to satisfy his new client’s impossible tailo...
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Audio Description: Ballet Shoes
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This is the audio described version of Ballet Shoes.
‘The best kind of family is the one you’re able to choose’
In a crumbling house full of dinosaur bones and fossils, three adopted sisters – Pauline, Petrova and Posy – are learning who they are and what they want to be.
Under the watchful ...
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Audio Description: A Tupperware of Ashes
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This is the audio described version of A Tupperware of Ashes.
An ambitious Michelin-Star chef, Queenie is used to having the last word. But when her children notice gaps in her memory and her grip on reality loosening, they are faced with an impossible choice. As Raj, Gopal and Kamala battle to ...
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Audio Description: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
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This is the audio described version of Behind the Beautiful Forevers.
What is Behind the Beautiful Forevers about?
In India’s biggest slum, beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport, lives Zehrunisa and her 16-year old son Abdul whose gift for trash sorting is the source of his family...
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Audio Description: Red
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This is the audio described version of Red.
Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant, and the threatening presence of a new generation of artists, Mark Rothko takes on his greatest challenge yet: to create a definitive work for an extraordinary setting.
Michael Grandage directs the first...
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Audio Description: 50 Years on Stage
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This is the audio described version of 50 Years on Stage.
In 2013 the National Theatre celebrated 50 years of unforgettable theatre, with extracts of iconic plays of the last five decades. Some of the greatest names in British theatre from Judi Dench, Benedict Cumberbatch and Andrew Scott repris...
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Audio Description: The Wind in the Willows
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This is the audio described version of The Wind in the Willows.
The hit musical from creator of Downton Abbey, Julian Fellowes, and award-winning composer and lyricist, George Stiles & Anthony Drewe.
Join Ratty, Badger, Mole and the impulsive Toad on a series of riotous adventures spiralling f...
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Audio Description: Life of Pi
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This is the audio described version of Life of Pi.
Puppetry, magic and storytelling combine in a unique, Olivier Award-winning stage adaptation of the best-selling novel.
After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, a 16-year-old boy named Pi is stranded on a lifeboat wit...
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Audio Description: The Other Place
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This is the audio described version of The Other Place.
Two sisters reunite on the anniversary of the death of their father.
Their uncle has remodelled their family home, in an attempt at a fresh start. But one sister’s sudden reappearance threatens to shatter this fragile idyll as she demands...