The Royal Shakespeare Company offers a range of services for deaf and disabled patrons including captioned and audio described performances.
Accessible to all
Our philosophy is to make everything we do accessible to all our audience.
The Courtyard Theatre has level access to the ground floor and seating in the Stalls, and a lift to the Circle level. For more information please visit our Theatre Access pages.
The Royal Shakespeare Company offers a range of additional services for patrons including large print information and newsletters. To join the access newsletter list please email access@rsc.org.uk
If you need any information on our website in a different format, please email access@rsc.org.uk or telephone 01789 272227.
Assisted performances
We offer captioned and audio described performances for most productions:
Captioned performances
COURTYARD, The Taming of the Shrew, 7 August, 7.15pm
COURTYARD, Hamlet, 20 September, 1.00pm
COURTYARD, Love's Labour's Lost, 10 November, 7.15pm
COURTYARD, Don John, 7 January, 7.15pm
COURTYARD, Romeo and Juliet, 17 January, 1.00pm
COURTYARD, The Tempest, 12 March, 7.15pm
Audio described performances
COURTYARD, Hamlet, 6 September, 1.00pm
COURTYARD, Hamlet, 24 October, 7.15pm
COURTYARD, Love's Labour's Lost, 31 October, 7.15pm
COURTYARD, Love's Labour's Lost, 15 November, 1.00pm
COURTYARD, Romeo and Juliet, 20 December, 1.00pm
COURTYARD, Don John, 5 January, 7.15pm
COURTYARD, The Tempest, 14 March, 1.00pm
Audio introductions
An introduction to A Midsummer Night's Dream is available to listen to in mp3 format or read the notes.
Touch tours
The RSC offers touch tours at The Courtyard Theatre for our visually impaired patrons attending audio described performances.
These tours are free - to book a place please telephone 01789 403436 or email access@rsc.org.uk. Find out more about touch tours.
Access Matters
Read the latest edition of Access Matters in PDF or Word format.
Join our mailing list
For more details of our assisted performances and/or to join our free mailing list please email access@rsc.org.uk.
