{"id":3586,"date":"2012-08-09T09:37:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T14:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/college.web.unc.edu\/?p=3586"},"modified":"2024-07-02T13:31:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T13:31:05","slug":"playmakersopencaption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=3586","title":{"rendered":"PlayMakers offers more open captioned performances"},"content":{"rendered":"

PlayMakers Repertory Company is bringing back open captioning at selected performances during its 2012-2013 season.<\/p>\n

Open captioning enhances play-going enjoyment by allowing the audience to read along with the play. A screen is visible to the audience, which displays the text of the play as the actors are speaking it. A professional open captioning operator is in the audience, watching the show and scrolling through the text, keeping up with the action on stage.<\/p>\n

PlayMakers offered open captioning in a pilot program during its spring productions of \u201cThe Making of a King: Henry IV & V\u201d and \u201cNoises Off.\u201d The service proved such a popular feature that the theater will offer open captioning during Saturday matinees for each of PlayMakers\u2019 main stage shows and during the theater\u2019s PRC2<\/sup> second stage opener, \u201cAn Iliad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Open captioning will be available at the 7:30 p.m. Sept. 7 PRC2<\/sup> performance of \u201cAn Iliad.\u201d It will also be available for Saturday 2 p.m. main stage performances on Sept. 29 (\u201cRed\u201d), Nov. 3 (\u201cImaginary Invalid\u201d), Dec. 8 (\u201cIt\u2019s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play\u201d<\/em>), Feb. 9 (\u201cA Raisin in the Sun\u201d), Feb. 16 (\u201cClybourne Park\u201d) and April 13 (\u201cCabaret\u201d).<\/p>\n

Hannah Grannemann, managing director of PlayMakers, describes open captioning as being \u201clike closed captioning on your TV \u2014 but in the theater.\u201d<\/p>\n

For information and to place an order to attend open captioned performances, visit the PlayMakers\u2019 box office in the Center for Dramatic Art on Country Club Road or call (919) 962-PLAY (7529). Tickets to Saturday matinee performances are $35 each, or season tickets for the theater\u2019s entire Saturday Matinee\/Open Captioning Series may be purchased for $179.\u00a0To learn more, visit http:\/\/playmakersrep.org\/outreach\/allaccess\/opencaption<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Theatre Development Fund is partnering with PlayMakers to provide open captioning at no additional cost to patrons during the 2012-2013 season. Funding for PlayMakers\u2019 open captioning pilot program was provided by The Strowd Roses Foundation, a Chapel Hill based foundation.<\/p>\n

PlayMakers is the professional theater in residence in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PlayMakers Repertory Company is bringing back open captioning at selected performances during its 2012-2013 season. Open captioning enhances play-going enjoyment by allowing the audience to read along with the play. A screen is visible to the audience, which displays the text of the play as the actors are speaking it. A professional open captioning operator […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine-arts-humanities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45416,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions\/45416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}