The arts should be accessible to all, and as a community arts venue, Ropetackle actively welcomes people of all abilities.

That’s why we are proud to support this year’s Captioning Awareness Week, led by Stagetext, a deaf-led charity bringing text-based deaf access to arts and culture through captions and subtitles.

This year is particularly special as Stagetext celebrates 25 years of championing deaf access across the UK. Since their first captioned performance in November 2000 with the Duchess of Malfi by the RSC at the Barbican in November 2000, they’ve helped make more than 1,000 captioned and subtitled events happen every year.

Here’s why it matters: 18 million adults in the UK are deaf, deafened or hard-of-hearing. That’s one in three people who might struggle to enjoy theatre, musicals, museums or festivals unless there are captions.

Ropetackle, along with Stagetext, are pleased to be supporting deaf access with an upcoming captioned show of BARK,BARK on Sunday 23rd November at 7.30pm. An intriguing story about a dog-sitting couple, told from the viewpoint of a dog, this is an original multi-media show, with puppets, music, theatre and film. You can read about it here

We’d love to see you there! Book soon so you don’t miss out.