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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British Sign Language: Othello (2022)
Movie + 8 extras
This is the British Sign Language version of Othello (2022).
Take your seats for Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedy, Othello.
Directed by Clint Dyer with a cast that includes Giles Terera (Hamilton), Rosy McEwen (The Alienist), Paul Hilton (The Inheritance) and Tanya Franks (Mum).
She’s a br...
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Audio Description: Othello (2022)
Movie + 4 extras
This is the audio described version of Othello (2022).
Take your seats for Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedy, Othello.
Directed by Clint Dyer with a cast that includes Giles Terera (Hamilton), Rosy McEwen (The Alienist), Paul Hilton (The Inheritance) and Tanya Franks (Mum).
She’s a bright,...
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Audio Description: Best of Enemies
Movie + 2 extras
This is the audio described version of Best of Enemies.
David Harewood (Homeland) and Zachary Quinto (Star Trek) play feuding political rivals in James Graham’s (Sherwood) multiple award-winning new drama.
In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the next president, all eyes are on the batt...
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Audio Description: Frankenstein (with Jonny Lee Miller as the creature)
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Frankenstein.
This version of Frankenstein is with Jonny Lee Miller as the creature.
Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty... -
Audio Description: Frankenstein (with Benedict Cumberbatch as the creature)
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Frankenstein.
This version of Frankenstein is with Benedict Cumberbatch as the creature.
Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with crue...
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Audio Description: Hex
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Hex.
A big-hearted and colourful musical, that vividly retells the ‘Sleeping Beauty’ fairy tale.
Deep in the wood, a lonely fairy longs for someone to bless. When she is summoned to the palace to help the princess sleep, her dream turns into a nightmare ...
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Audio Description: Dixon and Daughters
Movie + 4 extras
This is the audio described version of Dixon and Daughters.
Mary has just been released from prison. She wants to come home and forget all about it but Briana has other ideas.
Over a tumultuous two days a family is forced to confront not just their past but themselves. Because even if you ref...
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Audio Description: The Wife of Willesden
Movie + 4 extras
This is the audio described version of The Wife of Willesden.
A proper local legend. Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend. Alvita will tell her life story to anyone in the pub – there’s no shame in her game. The question is: are you ready to hear it? Because this woman’s got the gift ...
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British Sign Language: Much Ado About Nothing
Movie + 8 extras
This is the British Sign Language version of Much Ado About Nothing.
Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd) and John Heffernan (Dracula) lead the cast in Shakespeare’s romcom of sun, sea and mistaken identity.
The legendary family-run Hotel Messina on the Italian Riveria has been visited by artists...
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Audio Description: Antigone
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Antigone.
The new King Creon is desperate to gain control over a city ravaged by civil war and refuses to bury the body of Antigone's rebellious brother. Outraged, she defies him and honours her brother. Creon takes action against her, risking the wrath of ...
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Audio Description: This House
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of This House.
It’s 1974, and Britain has a hung Parliament. The corridors of Westminster ring with the sound of infighting and backstabbing as the political parties battle to change the future of a nation.
This House is a moving and funny insight to the work...
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Audio Description: Antony & Cleopatra
Movie + 3 extras
Watch this audio-described performance of Antony & Cleopatra with Ralph Fiennes at National Theatre with National Theatre at Home.
Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion and power. Directed by Simon Godwin (Romeo & Juliet...
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Audio Description: Much Ado About Nothing
Movie + 4 extras
This is the audio described version of Much Ado About Nothing.
Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd) and John Heffernan (Dracula) lead the cast in Shakespeare’s romcom of sun, sea and mistaken identity.
The legendary family-run Hotel Messina on the Italian Riveria has been visited by artists, c...
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Audio Description: Blues for an Alabama Sky
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Blues for an Alabama Sky.
‘To realise our dreams, we must wake up.’
New York, 1930. Following a decade of creative explosion, the Harlem Renaissance is starting to feel the bite of the Great Depression.
In the face of hardship and dwindling opportunity, ...
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Audio Description: The Seagull
Movie + 4 extras
This is the audio described version of The Seagull.
Emilia Clarke ( Game of Thrones ) makes her West End debut in this 21st century retelling of Anton Chekhov’s tale of love and loneliness.
A young woman is desperate for fame and a way out. A young man is pining after the woman of his dreams. ...
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Audio Description: Jack Absolute Flies Again
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Jack Absolute Flies Again.
From the writer of the Broadway smash hit One Man, Two Guvnors comes a hilarious new play, set in 1940s British summertime.
After an aerial dog fight, Pilot Officer Jack Absolute flies home to rejoin his fearless young Hurricane ...
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Audio Description: Henry V
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Henry V.
Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) plays the title role in Shakespeare’s thrilling study of nationalism, war and the psychology of power.
Fresh to the throne, King Henry V launches England into a bloody war with France. When his campaign encounters r...
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Audio Description: Our Generation
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of Our Generation.
Created from five years of interviews with 12 young people from across the UK, Our Generation is a captivating portrait of their journey into adulthood.
Often too extraordinary to be fiction, this funny and moving play is for anyone who i...
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Audio Description: The Boy with Two Hearts
Movie + 3 extras
This is the audio described version of The Boy With Two Hearts
Herat, Afghanistan, 2000.
When a young mother speaks out against the Taliban, she and her husband are forced to flee their home and country with their three sons. Embarking on a long and terrifying journey across Russia and throug...
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Audio Description: All of Us
Movie + 3 extras
Stream audio-described performances of All of Us with a theatre subscription from National Theatre at Home.
Jess has a great life: a job she loves, a sharp sense of humour and a close group of friends. When austerity threatens the world she has worked hard to build, Jess makes a stand to protec...
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Audio Description: The Beaux' Stratagem
Movie + 4 extras
This is the audio described version of The Beaux' Stratagem.
The ‘Beaux’: Mr Aimwell and Mr Archer, two charming, dissolute young men who have blown their fortunes in giddy London. Shamed and debt-ridden, they flee to provincial Litchfield.
Their ‘Stratagem’: to marry for money. Lodged at t...
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Audio Description: The Book of Dust - La Belle Sauvage
Movie + 5 extras
Set twelve years before his epic His Dark Materials trilogy, this gripping adaptation revisits Phillip Pullman's fantastical world in which waters are rising and storms are brewing.
Two young people and their dæmons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhun...
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Audio Description: King Lear
Movie + 4 extras
This is the audio described version of King Lear.
Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, Ian McKellen is King Lear in Shakespeare’s tender, violent, moving and shocking play.
King Lear sees two ageing fathers – one a King, one his courtier –reject the children who truly l...
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Audio Description: As You Like It
Movie + 3 extras
Subscribe and watch the audio-described performance of As You Like It from National Theatre.
Shakespeare’s glorious comedy of love and change, with Rosalie Craig as Rosalind.
With her father the Duke in exile, Rosalind and her cousin Celia leave their lives in the court behind them and journe...