Captioned Theatre

[Elphabaenvy]

Hello! My name is Hope and I am a deaf theatre artist. I am currently involved in the production of a new musical that will be opening in March of 2020 and I am working on making it accessible to all of our audience members. I am currently trying to figure out how to make captions available during the performances. The venue we will be performing in does not have anywhere to display captions so I was thinking of finding a way to make closed captioning available through a smartphone app or something similar. Does anyone have any ideas about how I could do this or any other ideas about accessibility in general? What would make you feel comfortable and included at the theatre? I would really appreciate any input you have as it is our goal to make our show accessible for everyone! Thanks!

 

[SneakerNet]

So you saying that there's no place to hang the large format TV screen? As example below and you can hire Captel Service Specialists llc that will give live captioning.

 

[Old Analog]

You don't remember silent movie, you could do like in boxing ring have pretty young girls walk across stage with big card with message

 

[Elphabaenvy]

So you saying that there's no place to hang the large format TV screen? As example below and you can hire Captel Service Specialists llc that will give live captioning.

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Thanks for the suggestion! I will definitely look into that service.

 

[MikeF]

Don't opera houses do this already? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surtitles

 

[Mark Rejhon]

So you saying that there's no place to hang the large format TV screen? As example below and you can hire Captel Service Specialists llc that will give live captioning.

Thanks for the suggestion! I will definitely look into that service.

There's a free service now, webcaptioner.com