Spotlighting Accessibility Initiatives at the Arts Club Theatre Company and The Cultch

“Theatre and Accessibility in a Digital World Symposium” (2019); Photo Credit: Moonrider Productions

Before the non-profit society VocalEye launched in Vancouver in 2009, Amy Amantea, who lives with legal blindness, felt lost when she went out to enjoy live theatre. “I was having a very expensive two-hour nap. I’d buy a ticket, I’d sit in the nice, dark, comfy theatre, and I couldn’t follow the plotline to save my life. So, it got boring. I would hear people laugh or ooh or aah, and I would have no idea what we were engaged with, so I couldn’t be a part of that,” she says. Now, thanks to VocalEye’s live descriptions at performances, she can feel belonging at a theatre experience.

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Spotlighting Accessibility Initiatives at the Arts Club Theatre Company and The Cultch

Laugh Like a Demon in The Arts Club Theatre Company’s Hand to God

Oliver Castillo. Photo by David Cooper

When I walked into the Arts Club Theatre Company’s production of Hand to God, I didn’t quite know what to expect. I knew the play had something to do with an evil puppet, which is a good thing since I relish subversive puppets (I’ve seen Avenue Q twice). Other than that, I was curious as to what would unfold.

The play quickly won me over with its insanely clever and raw humour. In short, I loved it. Hand to God runs until June 25, 2017 at the Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre (162 West 1st Avenue). Make sure to see it before it closes.

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Laugh Like a Demon in The Arts Club Theatre Company’s Hand to God