Audio Description for Theatre

Audio Description allows people who are blind or have low vision to experience what is happening visually. Audio description brings transitions, movements, gestures, props, settings, costumes and scenery vividly to life during pauses in dialogue. Delivered by highly trained Audio Describers and transmitted by a small radio receiver and earpieces, it allows users to sit in virtually any area of the theatre.

The following Audio Described live performances are being delivered in Sydney:

South Pacific

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s smash hit production is back by popular demand. Relive the romance as the 34-piece orchestra plays showstoppers like 'Some Enchanted Evening', 'I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair', 'Bali Ha’i' and 'There is Nothin’ Like a Dame'.

Saturday 5 October 2013 at the Sydney Opera House, Opera Theatre.
Audio description tickets only available through Opera Australia on 9318 8391

Tosca

An opera by Puccini; Puccini’s irresistible score features the unforgettable aria, ‘Vissi d’arte’, a moment of heart-breaking poignancy in a plot where Floria Tosca and Cavaradossi are embroiled in an attempt to help a friend escape from prison. The chief of police in Rome, Baron Scarpia, is himself the perpetrator of worse crimes than those he has officially to deal with.

Saturday 10 August 2013 at the Sydney Opera House, Opera Theatre.
Audio description tickets only available through Opera Australia on 9318 8391

The Glass Menagerie

Widely regarded as one of Tennessee Williams’ most powerful and haunting plays, The Glass Menagerie is a poignant reflection on the glories of times past, with echoes of loneliness, fragility and innocent hope.Thursday 1 and Saturday 3 August 2013 at the Ensemble Theatre, Kirribilli.
Call Theatre Box Office on 9929 0644

Rosencranzt and Guildenstern are dead

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, pretty much everyone ends up dead - including the courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. In Tom Stoppard's evergreen comic masterpiece, the hapless pair's last days are chronicled; days largely spent trying to make sense of their interactions with other characters as the epic Hamlet unspools just off stage.

Saturday 24 August 2013 at Sydney Theatre, Walsh Bay.
Call Theatre Box Office on 9250 1777

When booking please state that you require Audio Description. Ensure that you are seated 15 minutes prior to the start of the performance to receive broadcast of program details and a description of the set design through the ear piece. Tactile tours are also offered at selected shows 1 hour prior to the performance.

This is an initiative of the Vision Australia Audio Description Service.

16 July 2013