As part of Bloomsbury Festival in October, theatre company Extant, the UK's leading professional performing arts company of visually impaired artists and theatre practitioners, has adapted Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis for the stage, in a contemporary reimagining called States of Mind which relocates the action into the clinical setting of an institutional room, to explore the darker themes that lie beneath the poem's erotic veneer.
By delivering integrated audio description through the theatricality of a medical observation room, this feature of the production – though primarily for a visually impaired audience – is designed to include sighted members to enhance their own enjoyment of the piece.
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