Thursday 3 February 2011

ISSUE 87: HOW CREATIVE CAN ACCESS GET IN THEATRE?

Issue: How creative can access get in theatre

Convener(s): Caroline Parker

Participants:
Tom M, Chrissy Tay, Emily Kempson, Ashley Scott La_Ton, Jenifer Malarkey, Martin McClean, Steven Whinnery, Jo Hammant

Summary of discussion, conclusions and/or recommendations:

Access a word too clinical let’s call it ‘Inclusive Theatre’

Sorting access in rehearsals for actors

Access for audience

‘Barriers’ who creates them

Planning ahead.

Funding for access – in budget applications, and Access To Work

Quote from director Kate Mitchell ‘Do you see actors as skilled and talented or as incapable and stupid’

See actor/person first not ‘Oh I want to work with deaf/disabled people’ Just cast them in roles as you would with any other actor.

It is possible to over design the creative access too much so that they become inaccessible.


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