Title: Invisible Summer
Venue and Format: Digital delivery to you email inbox | interactive, immersive online experience
Innovation: This is a unique work that emphasizes the fear people have been experiencing as a result of COVID-19. Invisible Summer is an immersive experience allowing audiences to feel some amount of togetherness through the pandemic.
Are you reading this late at night? You are flying out over the fields. You leave them behind. The land is indistinct, furred and dark. The channels of water, the ditches and rivers have the subtle glimmer of snakes. Invisible Summer is a multimedia play for your inbox. Part late night scary story, part call to arms, it’s about how to get through the pandemic. Invisible Summer is designed so that each audience member, depending on their mode of communication, receives a different theatrical experience. It creatively combines written text, Spoken English, BSL, captioning, and audio description. It has been designed with audiences with visual impairments, D/deaf audiences who use BSL, and D/deaf audiences who read captions, in mind. You meet your bones in all different types of ways. This is one of them.
THEATRE/COMPANY: The Royal Court Theatre
ARTISTS:
Writer: Eve Leigh
Director: Rachel Bagshaw
Movement Director: Jennifer Jackson
Design: Cécile Trémolières
Video Design: Sarah Readman
Music: Nwando Ebizie and Tom Penn
Actors: Nadia Nadarajah, Tom Penn, and Nwando Ebizie
DATE OF PREMIERE: November 30, 2020
COUNTRY: England
LANGUAGE: English
CATEGORY: Interactive, Game,