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Captioning converts
the spoken word on stage into text via screens positioned on the
stage and so provides access to the performance for patrons with
any degree of hearing loss.
Captioning can
be useful for audience members with hearing loss, and also for plays
where a strong regional dialogue is spoken, when action takes place
off the stage and only voices are heard, and for audience members
for whom English is not their first language.
Captions are
shown on the two screens at the same time as the words are spoken
or sung on stage. Sound effects and off-stage noises are also displayed.
The text is controlled via a computer system by a captioner who
is following the script, therefore keeping in time with the dialogue.
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Captioning
