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Murcia Circus Theatre has joined the Teatro initiative that has been implemented accessible in the main Spanish theaters with the aim of facilitating access to the theater for the hearing and visually impaired.

This project provides an opportunity for access to content and leisure spaces for people with sensory disabilities through a set of services that becomes the stage of the theater in an accessible environment and generate shared entertainment experiences that enable these users assistance Regular theater.

These services include subtitles, sign language, audio description and Braille, among others.

According to Councilman Employment, Tourism and Culture, Jesus Pacheco, "collaborating with Accessible Theatre Initiative supposed to launch a pioneering initiative in Murcia, since there is hardly accessible programming continuously in the theater for people with disabilities."

For his part, Councillor for Social, Conchita Ruiz, explained that "it is a priority of the government team to eliminate the many barriers facing people with disabilities in their daily lives, not only physical, but many, many times invisible that prevent communication or access to information and audiovisual content. We are working on getting full accessibility in the municipality of Murcia and ensure that the needs of people with disabilities are taken into account in all policy areas. "

Furthermore, this collaboration is a positioning engagement and awareness of society, culture and people with hearing or visual impairments, opening a direct channel of communication with the audience, which favors both attracting new audiences and Loyalty Theater people with disabilities.

Plays the Teatro Circo Murcia offers this season to the draft Accessible Theatre are included in the subscription cycle Merida:

- November 20: 'Socrates', with José María Pau.

- January 23, 2016: 'Caesar and Cleopatra' with Angela Molina, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Lucia Jimenez and Marcial Alvarez.

- February 5, 2016: 'Medea', with Ana Bethlehem.

The Vodafone Foundation and Aptent, the company that launched this project, with technological basis of a research team at the Carlos III University of Madrid, has also developed a mobile application for accessible theater, through which it will be distributed subtitling and audio description of the works.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia