As part of our mission to be more accessible, The Questors Theatre has become one of the first amateur theatres in the UK to invest in captioning. Thanks to a grant by The Theatres Trust, we have purchased in-house captioning equipment and offer performances captioned live by our volunteer community captioners.
WHAT IS CAPTIONING?
Captioning displays the spoken word as visible text to provide deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people with access to live performance. Similar to television subtitles, the script is displayed on an LED caption unit on or next to the stage, as the words are spoken or sung. Captions can also include the name of the character speaking and descriptions of any sound effects or music, and are used by anyone who may have difficulty hearing or understanding the audible elements of a live performance.
