07 - Jonathan Suffolk – Making The Arts Accessible

I talk to Jonathan Suffolk, Director of Production at The Curve, Leicester who headed up the team at The National Theatre who developed their smart caption glasses. These augmented reality glasses provide captions for people who are D/deaf or hard of hearing, without them having to turn and read captions on a screen at the side or over the top of a stage. We get quite techy and hear how it all works in detail. And he talks very honestly about how access works in a major theatre and how it rubs up against the eternal economic difficulties in the arts.

Links:

The National Theatre Caption Glasses

https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/your-visit/access/caption-glasses

The National Theatre, London, UK

https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/

Leicester Curve Theatre

https://www.curveonline.co.uk/

Stagetext – providing captions for theatres

https://www.stagetext.org/

Galapro – providing captions and audio descriptions to phones

https://playbill.com/article/the-new-technology-about-to-revolutionize-broadway

The Arts Council’s ‘Let’s Create’ strategy

https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/lets-create

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07 - Jonathan Suffolk

Making The Arts Accessible

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