4 free double passes to Brink Productions’'Harbinger'!

'Harbinger'
by Brink Productions

DATT is excited to give away 4 free double passes to Brink Productions’'Harbinger'! The tickets are for either the 30 August or 4 September (matinee or evening) live captioned show, so please let us know which session you’d like to attend.

Please reply to this email by Monday 23 August to be in the running for this fantastic opportunity. Please also include in your response, the session you would like to attend. Winners will be notified by email on Tuesday 24 August 2010.

Brink Productions has also generously offered up to 12 tickets (maximum 2 per person) at only $19.75 for the above performances, available through DATT.

DATT would like to give a BIG thank you to Brink Productions for sharing this fantastic opportunity!

Brink Productions’

HARBINGER
By Matthew Whittet

A tender ‘boy meets girl, girl eats boy’ love story caked in crimson humour, Harbinger by Matthew Whittet is as hilarious as it is unsettling. A nightmarish dreamscape and black comedy rolled into a rich theatrical brew. Think David Lynch meets Flight of the Conchords. Think Hitchcock meets True Blood. Think Freddy Krueger meets - actually, stop thinking and start preparing for what will be the funniest, juiciest, most disturbing theatre experience of 2010, or possibly even your life...

31 Aug – 11 Sept 2010

(Previews from 27 Aug)

Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre

7.30pm and Sat matinees 2.30pm

Sat 4 Sept Live Captioning for matinee and evening performance

Mon 6 Sept Post-show Meet the Cast Forum

Thurs 9 Sept Pre-show briefing for visually impaired patrons

Assisting Listening System, Open Captioning, Touch Tour, Accessible, Companion Card accepted

CAST - Alex Menglet, Nathan O’Keefe and Yael Stone

WRITER - Matthew Whittet

DIRECTOR - Chris Drummond

DESIGNER - Wendy Todd

COMPOSER - Stuart Day

LIGHTING DESIGNER - David Gadsden

SOUND DESIGNER - Mick Jackson

PRODUCER - Kay Jamieson

Brink Productions leads the way in SA with live captioning

South Australian theatre company Brink Productions is extending the realms of new technology, becoming the first company in the state to provide live captioning for its latest production, Harbinger, premiering in Adelaide on Tuesday 31st August at Space Theatre.

Go-Theatrical!TM captioning by the Captioning Studio will be employed for two of the Adelaide shows and is designed to caption live performances, enabling hearing-impaired patrons, or those who do not have English as their first language, to better engage with the performance.

Brink Productions is able to offer this service, as part of its wider access program, with the very generous assistance of Arts SA and the Adelaide Festival Centre. Having made a significant investment in screens and the associated hardware and equipment necessary for the captioning display, the Adelaide Festival Centre has made it easier for other South Australian companies to also provide a captioning service for disadvantaged patrons.

Two performances of Harbinger will be captioned on September 4th - the matinee at 2.30pm and the evening show at 7.30pm.

Kay Jamieson, Brink Productions’ Executive Producer, is very excited about using the technology to offer this service to disadvantaged patrons. “There is a real need for live captioning in live performance. We are thrilled to be able to provide this opportunity for our audiences and to be the first South Australian theatre company to utilize the service. This technology means that hearing impaired patrons don’t have to miss out – they are able to fully enjoy the theatrical experience Brink Productions offers,” she said.

Through the use of live captioning, words spoken by the actors, as well as any sound effects, are displayed on a large screen whilst the performance is taking place. A highly skilled team of Captioners carefully prepare the captions in advance of the performance and then work behind the scenes via a phone line and the internet to display the captions, along with any minor changes that may come with the live performance, on plasma screens as the words are being spoken.

As well as captioned performances Brink Productions will host a pre-show briefing for visually impaired patrons attending the Harbinger performance on Thursday 9th September. This pre-show briefing allows visually-impaired patrons an opportunity to have the set, props and costumes described to them before the show, to hear the voice of each actor and a description of the character they play and, where possible, to feel textures and shapes of costumes and props.

Cameron Bache
Project Assistant
Disability & Arts Transition Team (DATT)
(Community Arts Network SA Inc)

234a Sturt Street, Adelaide SA 5000
Tel (08) 8231 0900
Fax (08) 8231 0977
Toll-free 1800 245 678
cbache@cansa.net.au
datt@cansa.net.au