Now for the next in our regular slots here on RNIB Connect Radio highlighting what is on offer at the National Theatre in London for blind and partially sighted people with audio description.



Our Toby Davey was joined again by David Bellwood, Head of Access at the National Theatre to chat about a few up-coming audio described shows at the National Theatre and a couple that are available online with audio description too via ntathome.com



Audio described performances included:





The much loved best-selling book ‘Ballet Shoes’ is spectacularly reinvented for the stage in a new adaptation by Kendall Feaver. In a crumbling house full of dinosaur bones and fossils, three adopted sisters – Pauline, Petrova and Posy – are learning who they are and what they want to be.



Under the watchful eyes and guidance of their guardian Sylvia, Nana, and some unlikely lodgers, they fight to pursue their individual passions. But in a world that wasn’t built for women with big ambitions, can they forge a future, keep their family together, and even learn a dance or two along the way?



‘Ballet Shoes’ will be audio described on Saturday 21 December at 1.30pm with  touch tour at 11.30am and on Thursday 30 January at 7pm with a touch tour at 5pm in the National Theatre’s Olivier Theatre.





Max Webster directs a joyful and flamboyant reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy ‘The Importance of Being Ernest’ with Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke, Ncuti Gatwa and Hugh Skinner in this hilarious story of identity, impersonation and romance.



The Importance of Being Earnest’ will be audio described on Friday 10 January at 7.30pm with a touch tour at 5.30pm at the National Theatre’s Littleton Theatre. 





From ntathome.com with audio description David recommended ‘Vanya’ and ‘Nye’ both available from ntathome.com



To find out more about the National Theatre’s audio description offer and services for blind and partially sighted people do either call the NT on 020 7452 3961 or visit the NT website - https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk



And for more about ntathome.com and to view many theatre productions online with audio description do visit - https://www.ntathome.com





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