Tuesday 28 February 2012

Welcome to Loving and Labouring, Deafinitely Theatre's blog which will follow the preparations for our production of Love's Labour's Lost to be performed at Shakespeare's Globe for their Globe to Globe Festival.

For the festival each of Shakespeare's 37 complete works will be translated into a different language. Deafinitely Theatre was asked to produce one in British Sign Language (BSL).

This week our actors have started work on translating the hallowed script into BSL. It's no easy feat but more about that later....

So, who are Deafinitely Theatre? We are a little company with an office in Kentish Town, London and we've been around for a while. Ten years in fact. This year we're celebrating this momentous anniversary and what better way than performing in one of the world's most famous theatres! We specialise in making plays in British Sign Language that are enjoyed by both deaf and hearing people. The company is led by Deaf people and uses a mixture of Deaf and hearing actors for its plays.