“50s Absurdism meets 90s in-yer-face apocalypticism.”
A mild-mannered professor takes on a new pupil, and swiftly descends into tyranny, becoming bent on her destruction.
A blistering revival of Icarus’ award-winning dark comedy with a new Creative Captioning process supported by Arts Council England, for both hearing and deaf/HoH audiences.
A comically surreal expose about power, knowledge and those who hoard both.
Watch the trailer here.
Doors – 7pm
Performance starts – 7:30pm
General Admission – £12
Concession/Unwaged – £10
Tickets can be purchased at HEART reception or via the button below:
What is Creative Captioning?
Normal captioning uses a surtitle box over the stage that serves no dramatic purpose, distracts from the story, and is heavily criticised by the Deaf community as being like “reading a play while watching a play.”
Our new captioning technology (and indeed the whole design working inconcert) functions almost as an additional character on stage. The cast interact. It interacts with them.
We don’t just display “Music plays” to describe the score, but instead musical notes travel along the walls, moving in ways that allow Deaf/HoH audiences to understand the emotion behind the music and at the same time gives the hearing audience an extra sensory perception of the story.
We are also able to enhance words visually the way the cast say them. We don’t need to write a lot of text to describe a town; we can just draw the town onthe chalkboard.
Hearing audiences have responded enthusiastically that our Creative Captioning enhances rather than distracts and Deaf audiences have unanimously said that this type of technology would bring them to the theatre more.
Learn more here:
https://youtu.be/SKiX-oCiTJE