Scottish theatre secures funds for captioning equipment

Pitlochry Festival Theatre has been awarded grants for new captioning equipment.

The grants come from the Theatre Trust’s small grants programme with The Linbury Trust, as well as Jimmie Cairncross Trust and Misses Barrie Charitable Trust.

The theatre, located in the Scottish highlands, says the equipment will see the number of accessible performances increase, while also reducing costs and environmental impact.

“Having our own captioning display will allow us greater flexibility when programming captioned performances. We will no longer be reliant on a courier delivering the unit to us in time for the performance,” explained Jennifer Hoy, Box Office and Front of House Manager.

“Not only does this reduce the costs for delivery, but vastly reduces the carbon footprint for each of our captioned performances. Being able to install our unit permanently in one position will also help our audience members who benefit from captioned performances when they watch a show as the unit will be in the same place each time they visit.”