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Thursday, March 26, 2026
Every show should be captioned for deaf audiences, petition demands
www.thestage.co.uk: Theatre owners ATG Entertainment, Delfont Mackintosh Theatres and LW Theatres are being urged to ensure every performance at their venues has captions in order to be accessible for deaf audiences
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Max A
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There’s a regional theatre company where I’m from (Trinity Rep in Providence, RI) that offers a captioning section in the audience for every show. This means that every single show is captioned, but audience members don’t have to see the captions if they don’t want to. Not only does this make theatre more accessible, but it also made me realize how captions can function in a show. Trinity used their captioning technology when they put on a play called La Tempestad, which is a spin on Shakespeare’s The Tempest that is partially in Spanish. The play had both English subtitles for the Spanish parts, and Spanish subtitles for the Shakespearean English parts. It was definitely one of the coolest shows I’ve seen, especially because Shakespeare is already so linguistically rich, the Spanish parts made me feel so immersed even though I couldn’t understand what the actors were saying and I was reading words over their heads.
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There’s a regional theatre company where I’m from (Trinity Rep in Providence, RI) that offers a captioning section in the audience for every show. This means that every single show is captioned, but audience members don’t have to see the captions if they don’t want to. Not only does this make theatre more accessible, but it also made me realize how captions can function in a show. Trinity used their captioning technology when they put on a play called La Tempestad, which is a spin on Shakespeare’s The Tempest that is partially in Spanish. The play had both English subtitles for the Spanish parts, and Spanish subtitles for the Shakespearean English parts. It was definitely one of the coolest shows I’ve seen, especially because Shakespeare is already so linguistically rich, the Spanish parts made me feel so immersed even though I couldn’t understand what the actors were saying and I was reading words over their heads.
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