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Audio description
Our audio description team was thoroughly blooded during Trousers, with two blind persons in the audience on the Wednesday and six on the Friday, when the service is inaugurated by Lord Ashley of Stoke.

The describers do an act apiece, and there is a stand-by in case of indisposition. During Trousers the describers were new member Rachel Mold and Deb Nurse on Wednesday and Deb and Dorite Anderson a Nome Mum on the Friday. Eva Pearson, John Tweedale and Chris Brooks have also trained as describers.

After some guidance from the audio description team at Chichester Theatre our describers prepared the script themselves, including an introduction to the Nomads and the theatre building.

We expect this service, which is not available even in professional theatres in the area, to be a regular feature during our shows.

The job of the describer involves reading the play, watching run-throughs, preparing and testing the script and describing the action on stage with the help of a monitor in the Committee Room. The aim in preparing the script is to place the commentary in such a way as to avoid a clash with the stage dialogue - not an easy task during a farce.

If anyone is interested in joining the team they should get in touch with Bill Pearson on 01306 730582.

If you are booking tickets for someone who needs to use the aids for hearing or sight please make this clear to the Box Office.
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