Access Information
A Space For All Our Tomorrows celebrates the brilliance, creativity and resilience of all disabled people. Created through dialogue with disabled people from all different backgrounds, it imagines a utopian place where everyone’s needs are met. It is a beautiful, hopeful dance work featuring three disabled dancers - one with limb differences, another who dances with crutches, and a third who is blind - along with a singer. It’s not important to catch or understand everything - everyone’s response is valid and important.
Annie and her team have thought carefully about how the work welcomes people with different needs. Here’s what we can offer:
A relaxed performance - You can come and go as you please, and you are welcome to move around and make noise if you need to.
Captions - the work has text that is sung and played as a voiceover. There are captions projected on stage to help everyone understand the text better. The work includes many languages and these are translated.
An access leaflet - a booklet containing an introduction to the show and all of the spoken text, for you to read before or after the show. This includes translations of all the languages in the show.
Audio description - a description in English of every moment of the show is available on audio headsets, helping blind and visually impaired audience members watch the show. Information about the show is also available as audio files on the Lancaster Arts website.
Orientation video - a video showing how to access the theatre and what it’s like inside, so those who have never been know what to expect.
Blind & Visually Impaired Audiences
One of the dancers in A space for all our tomorrows, Giuseppe Communiello, is blind. He has been instrumental in the creation of this work. We are providing audio description in English to make the show accessible to blind and visually impaired audience members. Information about the show is also available as audio files on the Lancaster Arts website.
Deaf Audiences
A space for all our tomorrows includes text that is sung in English and spoken in voiceover in a number of languages. This text comes from conversations with disabled people from a variety of backgrounds about their ideas of utopia. The text is projected as captions, including English translations, and is also available in a leaflet to take away for audience members to read before or after the show.
Learning disabled & neurodivergent audiences
A space for all our tomorrows is a beautiful, meditative work. We want audience members to relax and feel comfortable while watching it. It was created through conversations with many different disabled people about what a utopia would be for them - a place where everyone can feel comfortable, have their needs met and live happily together. It’s not important to catch or understand everything - everyone’s response is valid and important.
The performance is relaxed, meaning it’s ok to come and go, move around and make noise if needed. There are no flashing lights, though there are bright lights and smoke, and the sound can sometimes be loud, but it is not harsh.
We will provide an orientation video to allow anyone who has never been to the Lancaster Arts theatre to know what to expect.
Wheelchair users & others with mobility impairments
The Nuffield Theatre is situated in the Great Hall Complex at Lancaster University. The Great Hall Complex has a level access entrance, through automatic sliding doors. The entrance to the theatre is to your right as you enter through the automatic doors. The theatre entrance is also level access and wheelchair spaces are available. These can be selected at the point of booking. Lancaster Arts front of house staff and volunteers will be on hand to answer any questions and provide any support you may require.
