Audio Description and British Sign Language
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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.
British Sign Language gives Deaf and hard of hearing people access to experience theatre. An interpreter will stand in a clearly visible position on the screen and interpret the spoken and heard aspects of the play.
Captions are similar to subtitling and gives Deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people access to theatre. Captioning is also helpful for customers whose first language is not English and students who are studying the text of a play.
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Audio Description: Death of England :Michael
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Death of England :Michael.
A family in mourning. A man in crisis.
After the death of his dad, Michael is powerless and angry. In a state of heartbreak, he confronts the difficult truths about his father’s legacy and the country that shaped him. At the fun...
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Audio Description: Death of England :Delroy
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Death of England :Delroy.
'Raw, gutsy and exhilarating' (★★★★ Evening Standard)
Unapologetically upwardly mobile and working as a bailiff, Delroy’s life spirals out of control on one surreal day as he races to get to the hospital where his girlfriend Carl...
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Audio Description: Death of England :Closing Time
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Death of England: Closing Time.
There are two sides to every story.
Grieving the loss of the family shop with their dreams destroyed, Denise and daughter-in-law Carly are left to pick up the pieces of their relatives’ mistakes.
Sharon Duncan-Brewster an...
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Audio Description: Coriolanus
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Coriolanus.
Warrior. Hero. Traitor.
Unrivalled in the art of war, undefeated on the field of battle, Coriolanus is Rome’s greatest soldier.
When a legendary victory brings the opportunity of high office, he is persuaded to stand for election. But while ...
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Audio Description: Prima Facie
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Prima Facie.
‘On the face of it, something has to change’
Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) makes her ‘masterful West End debut’ (★★★★ Guardian) in the UK premiere of Suzie Miller’s award-winning play.
Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her w...
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British Sign Language: Prima Facie
Movie + 3 extras
This is the British Sign Language version of Prima Facie.
‘On the face of it, something has to change’
Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) makes her ‘masterful West End debut’ (★★★★ Guardian) in the UK premiere of Suzie Miller’s award-winning play.
Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked...
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Audio Description: Present Laughter
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Present Laughter.
Stream the multi award-winning production of Noël Coward’s provocative comedy featuring Andrew Scott (Vanya, All of Us Strangers, Fleabag).
As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine’s colourful life is in d...
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Audio Description: The Grapes of Wrath
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of The Grapes of Wrath.
The great American novel reimagined.
Forced to travel West in search of a promised land, the Joad family embark on an epic journey across America in the hope of finding work and a new life in California.
Their story is one of false ...
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British Sign Language: Nye
Movie + 2 extras
This is the British Sign Language version of Nye.
Following it's critically acclaimed debut, Nye with Michael Sheen is now streaming on National Theatre at Home.
From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create the NHS, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan is often referred to as the politician...
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Audio Description: Nye
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Nye.
Following its critically acclaimed debut, Nye with Michael Sheen is now streaming on National Theatre at Home.
From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create the NHS, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan is often referred to as the politician with g...
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Audio Description: Macbeth
Movie + 2 extras
This is the audio described version of Macbeth.
Macbeth is coming.
A couple corrupted by their relentless lust for power have blood on their hands. Witness the gripping tale of greed, murder, deception, and superstition. Once you cross the line, you can never turn back.
Tony and BAFTA Awar...
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Audio Description: London Tide
Movie + 7 extras
This is the audio described version of London Tide.
A storm rages and, in the darkest part of the night, a body is pulled from the swirling river. Across the city, two young women confront an uncertain future.
Based on Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend, this romantic and propulsive thriller ...
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British Sign Language: Underdog: The Other Other Brontë
Movie + 3 extras
This is the british sign language version of Underdog: The Other Other Brontë.
Reader, I think you know who is most quotable.
Charlotte Brontë has a confession about how one sister became an idol, and the other became known as the third sister. You know the one. No, not that one. The other, oth...
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Audio Description: People, Places & Things
Movie + 2 extras
This is the audio described version of People, Places & Things.
Duncan Macmillan’s (Lungs, 1984) intoxicating hit play People, Places & Things, directed by Jeremy Herrin (Best of Enemies, Wolf Hall, This House) and designed by Tony Award-winner Bunny Christie, is a ‘must-see all over again’ (Wha...
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Audio Description: Vanya
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Vanya.
Andrew Scott (Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.
Hopes, dreams, and regrets are thrust into sharp focus in this one-man ada...
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British Sign Language: Yerma
Movie + 4 extras
This is the British Sign Language version of Yerma.
A young woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child.
Set in contemporary London, this radical production of Lorca’s classic tragedy builds with elemental force to a staggering, shocking, climax. Billie Piper pla...
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Audio Description: Underdog: The Other Other Brontë
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Underdog: The Other Other Brontë.
Reader, I think you know who is most quotable.
Charlotte Brontë has a confession about how one sister became an idol, and the other became known as the third sister. You know the one. No, not that one. The other, other one...
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British Sign Language: Romeo & Juliet
Movie + 3 extras
This is the British Sign Language version of Romeo & Juliet.
Watch Romeo and Juliet the play online with National Theatre at Home.
Romeo and Juliet risk everything to be together. In defiance of their feuding families, they chase a future of joy and passion as violence erupts around them.
Thi...
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British Sign Language: Julie
Movie + 3 extras
This is the British Sign Language version of Julie.
Stream Julie, a play by National Theatre with National Theatre at Home.
Wild and single, Julie throws a huge party in her luxurious London house which rapidly descends into a fight for her own survival.
Vanessa Kirby plays Julie in Polly St...
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Audio Description: Dear Octopus
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Dear Octopus.
The family, from whose tentacles we can never quite escape.
When a golden wedding anniversary reunites the Randolph family on the eve of WWII, Dora and Charles must reckon with the adults their children have become. Their children, meanwhile,...
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Audio Description: Till the Stars Come Down
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Till the Stars Come Down.
Everyone loves a wedding…
It’s Sylvia and Marek’s wedding and you are all invited.
Over the course of a hot summer’s day, a family gathers to welcome a newcomer into their midst. But as the vodka flows and dances are shared, pa...
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Audio Description: No Man's Land
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of No Man's Land.
Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart lead the cast in this glorious revival of Harold Pinter’s comic classic.
One summer's evening, two ageing writers, Hirst and Spooner, meet in a Hampstead pub and continue their drinking into the night at Hi...