World’s first theatre captioning exhibition comes to Colchester

The world’s first exhibition on open captioning in the arts will take place at Colchester’s Mercury Theatre in September.

Created by deaf-led captioning charity Stagetext, Captions Speak Louder details the history of theatre captioning, including how it was it was first brought to the UK in 1999 and has since spread across the country.

The free exhibition will run at Mercury Theatre from 3 to 29 September, following a successful debut at the Barbican Centre last November.

Chief Executive Steve Mannix said the theatre is really proud to be hosting the exhibition.

“At the Mercury, we firmly believe in the arts being accessible for all and this will be a great opportunity for our audiences to learn more about captioning and accessibility within the arts.”