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Commonweal To Offer Audio Described Performances
Fri, Sep 21st, 2012
Posted in Lanesboro Arts & Culture
Posted in Lanesboro Arts & Culture
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LANESBORO, MN — The Commonweal Theatre Company located in historic, downtown Lanesboro, is proud to announce a new audio-description service to enhance the enjoyment of live theatre for audience members with low vision. On specially-designated performance days, patrons can attend the Commonweal Theatre and receive the benefit of a trained audio-describer narrating visual elements of the production through a discreet earpiece.
“This service allows us to take access to live theatre to a whole new level,” says Commonweal Theatre’s Executive Director Hal Cropp. “Thanks to a special grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Commonweal has been able to purchase the equipment and gain the necessary training that we needed to provide this service to people who may not be able to enjoy live theatre otherwise. Our goal is for persons with visual challenges to have an experience at the Commonweal that is just as exciting and emotionally resonant as what a person with sight would have.”
Patrons who reserve this service are asked to arrive an hour before the show. At this time, the Commonweal will provide a tactile tour of the set, costumes, and hand out personal sound receivers where the description can be heard. Audio description begins twenty minutes before the show, to set the scene and create mental images of characters, set, and costumes before the performance actually begins. Once the show is underway, audio-describers provide intermittent description to give a complete picture of all lighting, costume, and set changes, as well as character movements and gestures. This service can only be heard through the personal devices and discreet earpiece that the Commonweal provides and will not disrupt other audience members who are in attendance.
This season, the Commonweal is pleased to offer audio-descriptions for the romantic-comedy The Philadelphia Story on Saturday, October 6th at 1:30 pm, the heartwarming drama The Drawer Boy on Sunday, October 7th at 1:30 pm, and the holiday classic A Christmas Carol on Saturday, December 1st at 1:30 pm. Reservations for this service must be made at least one week in advance by stopping in at the Commonweal Theatre Box Office at 208 Parkway Ave N, Lanesboro or by calling 1-800-657-7025, or emailing tickets@commonwealtheatre.org.
Additionally, the Commonweal Theatre has Braille versions of our programs available with advance notice to persons with low vision. Large print editions of the theatre’s programs are available upon request at the Box Office.
Funding for Commonweal Theatre’s programming is provided in part by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and private funders. For more details, including information about schedules, tickets, and other Commonweal programs, visit www.commonwealtheatre.org or call the Box Office at 1-800-657-7025.
“This service allows us to take access to live theatre to a whole new level,” says Commonweal Theatre’s Executive Director Hal Cropp. “Thanks to a special grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Commonweal has been able to purchase the equipment and gain the necessary training that we needed to provide this service to people who may not be able to enjoy live theatre otherwise. Our goal is for persons with visual challenges to have an experience at the Commonweal that is just as exciting and emotionally resonant as what a person with sight would have.”
Patrons who reserve this service are asked to arrive an hour before the show. At this time, the Commonweal will provide a tactile tour of the set, costumes, and hand out personal sound receivers where the description can be heard. Audio description begins twenty minutes before the show, to set the scene and create mental images of characters, set, and costumes before the performance actually begins. Once the show is underway, audio-describers provide intermittent description to give a complete picture of all lighting, costume, and set changes, as well as character movements and gestures. This service can only be heard through the personal devices and discreet earpiece that the Commonweal provides and will not disrupt other audience members who are in attendance.
This season, the Commonweal is pleased to offer audio-descriptions for the romantic-comedy The Philadelphia Story on Saturday, October 6th at 1:30 pm, the heartwarming drama The Drawer Boy on Sunday, October 7th at 1:30 pm, and the holiday classic A Christmas Carol on Saturday, December 1st at 1:30 pm. Reservations for this service must be made at least one week in advance by stopping in at the Commonweal Theatre Box Office at 208 Parkway Ave N, Lanesboro or by calling 1-800-657-7025, or emailing tickets@commonwealtheatre.org.
Additionally, the Commonweal Theatre has Braille versions of our programs available with advance notice to persons with low vision. Large print editions of the theatre’s programs are available upon request at the Box Office.
Funding for Commonweal Theatre’s programming is provided in part by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and private funders. For more details, including information about schedules, tickets, and other Commonweal programs, visit www.commonwealtheatre.org or call the Box Office at 1-800-657-7025.