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Edinburgh Fringe Review: “Matty Gurney as you’ve never seen him.” Donna Williams on ‘Light’

August 20, 2014 by

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Wow! That’s my review – wow!I suspect something more is needed… ‘Light’ is the play featured on Limping Chicken a […]

“It’s amazing to find out that someone has gone back to the theatre after a 10 year absence.” Meet outgoing STAGETEXT CEO, Tabitha Allum

August 14, 2014 by

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After ten years leading STAGETEXT, the charity that work to provide access to theatre and the arts through captioning and […]

London’s Royal Court theatre offers £10 tickets for captioned and BSL performances to Limping Chicken readers

July 15, 2014 by

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The Royal Court theatre, Britain’s leading theatre for new plays, has launched a new season of accessible performances for deaf […]

Deaf actor Matty Gurney to star in Edinburgh Fringe play, ‘Light’, aimed at deaf and hearing audiences

July 11, 2014 by

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Theatre Ad Infinitum is set to perform the company’s first dystopian sci-fi play at the Edinburgh Fringe, in collaboration with […]

Review: The play ‘Threepenny Opera’ by Graeae Theatre Company

February 28, 2014 by

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Graeae Theatre Company do not like to make life easy for themselves. This latest offering, Three Penny Opera, is their […]

Review: The play ‘Frozen’ – by Fingersmiths theatre company

February 20, 2014 by

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The new Fingersmiths production, ‘Frozen’ is a brave and dark choice. We are invited to follow the lives of three […]

Review: Deafinitely Theatre’s ‘Two’ – by Donna Williams

January 9, 2014 by

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On 14th November I had a lovely birthday treat – a trip to London to see Deafinitely Theatre’s production of […]

“YouTube’s auto captions? Don’t make me laugh!” Meet Claire Hill, expert stenographer!

April 17, 2013 by

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I first worked with Claire Hill when she provided speech-to-text for live comedy at Soho Theatre. I was amazed at […]

Ginny Kanka: How subtitled talks provided by STAGETEXT reduce the stress of trying to lipread!

April 9, 2013 by

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For decades, art galleries had FREE lunchtime talks – something I’ve always wanted to go but didn’t – as the talks […]

Meet: Kinny Gardner, who set up Krazy Kat theatre company

March 4, 2013 by

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As a child, it was a puppet show that first fired Edinburgh-born actor/ director Kinny Gardner’s love of theatre and […]