February is here and there are a whole host of new and exciting shows to be experienced. Below you will find accessible performances around the UK including audio description, touch tours, captioning, BSL interpretation, relaxed performances and silver screenings, click on the venue to find out more about the performances and where to book your tickets. If you find this guide useful or have any feedback let us know via our facebook or twitter.
Audio Described and Touch Tours
Saturday 1st February
Venue: Chichester Festival Theatre
Show: My Cousin Rachel - Murderess, seducer, thief, enchantress - or merely a woman intent on survival? Alluring, exotic and unconventional, Countess Rachel Sangalletti travels from Florence to the Ashley Estate in Cornwall, home of her recently deceased husband. Her presence in the house arouses dark suspicions and uncontrollable desires, not least in young Philip, cousin and heir to the Ashley home.
Touch Tour Time: 1:00pm
Show Time: 2:30pm
Access: Touch Tour and Audio Described
Saturday 1st February
Venue: National Theatre
Show: Three Sisters - Inua’s newest play is based on the 1900 Chekhov play and re-set in 1960s Nigeria, against a backdrop of increasingly violent tension. Owerri, 1967, on the brink of the Biafran Civil War. Lolo, Nne Chukwu and Udo are grieving the loss of their father. Months before, two ruthless military coups plunged the country into chaos. Fuelled by foreign intervention, the conflict encroaches on their provincial village, and the sisters long to return to their former home in Lagos.
Touch Tour Time: 12:45pm
Show Time: 2:15pm
Access: Touch Tour and Audio Described
Saturday 8th February
Venue: Trafalgar Studios
Show: A Taste of Honey - When her mother Helen runs off with a car salesman, feisty teenager Jo takes up with Jimmie, a sailor who promises to marry her, before he heads for the seas. Art student Geof moves in and assumes the role of surrogate parent until, misguidedly, he sends for Helen and their unconventional setup unravels.
Touch Tour Time: 1:00pm
Show Time: 2:30pm
Access: Touch Tour and Audio Described
Friday 14th February
Venue: Chichester Festival Theatre
Show: A Monster Calls – Based on the novel by Patrick Ness A Monster Calls tells the story of thirteen-year-old Conor as he struggles with his mother’s illness, his father’s absence, his overbearing grandmother and the trials and tribulations of school. Then, one night, Conor is woken by something at his window. A monster has come walking. It’s come to tell Conor tales from when it walked before. And when it’s finished, Conor must tell his own story and face his deepest fears.
Touch Tour Time: 6:00pm
Show Time: 7:30pm
Access: Touch Tour and Audio Described
Saturday 15th February
Venue: Lyric Theatre
Show: Faustus: That Damned Woman - Caroline Byrne directs this radical new work in which the iconic character of Faustus becomes a woman who makes the ultimate sacrifice in order to traverse centuries and change the course of history.
Show Time: 7:30pm
Access: Audio Described
Saturday 15th February
Venue: Stratford East
Show: The Gift - A subversive comedy drama about imperialism, cross-racial adoption, cultural appropriation... and tea. Brighton, 1862. A day in the life of Sarah, an African girl, adopted by Queen Victoria and raised in the Queen’s circles. Today is the eve of her having to return to Africa but will she go? The Present. A day in the life of Sarah, a black middle-class woman staying in a Cheshire village with her husband and small child. They are paid a visit by well-meaning neighbours who have something to confess. The two Sarahs meet Queen Victoria for tea. This won’t be your regular tea party…
Touch Tour Time: 1:30pm
Show Time: 2:30pm
Saturday 15th February
Venue: Chichester Festival Theatre
Show: A Monster Calls – Based on the novel by Patrick Ness A Monster Calls tells the story of thirteen-year-old Conor as he struggles with his mother’s illness, his father’s absence, his overbearing grandmother and the trials and tribulations of school. Then, one night, Conor is woken by something at his window. A monster has come walking. It’s come to tell Conor tales from when it walked before. And when it’s finished, Conor must tell his own story and face his deepest fears.
Touch Tour Time: 1:00pm
Show Time: 2:30pm
Access: Touch Tour and Audio Described
Saturday 15th February
Venue: Cambridge Arts Theatre
Show: Blithe Spirit - Novelist Charles Condomine and his second wife Ruth are literally haunted by a past relationship when an eccentric medium (Jennifer Saunders) inadvertently conjures up the ghost of his first wife, Elvira, at a séance. When she appears, visible only to Charles, and determined to sabotage his current marriage, life – and the afterlife – get complicated.
Show Time: 2:30pm
Access: Audio Described Performance
Friday 28th February
Venue: National Theatre
Show: Death of England - After the death of his dad, Michael is a man in crisis, powerless and angry. In a state of heartbreak, he confronts the difficult truths about his father’s legacy and the country that shaped him. At the funeral, unannounced and unprepared, Michael decides it is time to speak.
Show Time: 8:00pm
Access: Audio Described
Saturday 29th February
Venue: National Theatre
Show: Death of England - After the death of his dad, Michael is a man in crisis, powerless and angry. In a state of heartbreak, he confronts the difficult truths about his father’s legacy and the country that shaped him. At the funeral, unannounced and unprepared, Michael decides it is time to speak.
Touch Tour Time: 1:30pm
Show Time: 3:00pm
Access: Touch Tour and Audio Described
Subtitled/Captioned
Friday 14th February
Venue: Stratford East
Show: The Gift - A subversive comedy drama about imperialism, cross-racial adoption, cultural appropriation... and tea. Brighton, 1862. A day in the life of Sarah, an African girl, adopted by Queen Victoria and raised in the Queen’s circles. Today is the eve of her having to return to Africa but will she go? The Present. A day in the life of Sarah, a black middle-class woman staying in a Cheshire village with her husband and small child. They are paid a visit by well-meaning neighbours who have something to confess. The two Sarahs meet Queen Victoria for tea. This won’t be your regular tea party…
Show Time: 7:30pm
Access: Captioned Performance
Saturday 15th February
Venue: Lyric Theatre
Show: Faustus: That Damned Woman - Caroline Byrne directs this radical new work in which the iconic character of Faustus becomes a woman who makes the ultimate sacrifice in order to traverse centuries and change the course of history.
Show Time: 2:30pm
Access: Open Captioned
Wednesday 19th February
Venue: Buxton Opera House - Cinema
Show: The Personal History of David Copperfield – From birth to infancy, from adolescence to adulthood, the good-hearted David Copperfield is surrounded by kindness, wickedness, poverty and wealth, as he meets an array of remarkable characters in Victorian England. As David sets out to be a writer, in his quest for family, friendship, romance and status, the story of his life is the most seductive tale of all.
Show Time: 7:30pm
Access: Subtitled
Saturday 22nd February
Venue: National Theatre
Show: The Welkin – In rural Suffolk in 1759 Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder. When she claims to be pregnant, a jury of 12 matrons are called to decide whether she is telling the truth of simply trying to escape the noose. Only midwife Lizzy Luke is prepared to defend the girl, and with a mob baying for blood outside one life lies in the hands of 12 women.
Show Time: 2:15pm
Access: Captioned
Monday 24th February
Venue: National Theatre
Show: The Welkin – In rural Suffolk in 1759 Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder. When she claims to be pregnant, a jury of 12 matrons are called to decide whether she is telling the truth of simply trying to escape the noose. Only midwife Lizzy Luke is prepared to defend the girl, and with a mob baying for blood outside one life lies in the hands of 12 women.
Show Time: 2:15pm
Access: Captioned
Tuesday 25th February
Venue: National Theatre
Show: Death of England - After the death of his dad, Michael is a man in crisis, powerless and angry. In a state of heartbreak, he confronts the difficult truths about his father’s legacy and the country that shaped him. At the funeral, unannounced and unprepared, Michael decides it is time to speak.
Show Time: 8:00pm
Access: Captioned
Wednesday 26th February
Venue: National Theatre
Show: The Welkin – In rural Suffolk in 1759 Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder. When she claims to be pregnant, a jury of 12 matrons are called to decide whether she is telling the truth of simply trying to escape the noose. Only midwife Lizzy Luke is prepared to defend the girl, and with a mob baying for blood outside one life lies in the hands of 12 women.
Show Time: 7:30pm
Access: Captioned
BSL Interpreted
Wednesday 5th February
Venue: Cambridge Arts Theatre
Show: God of Carnage - When eleven-year-old Ferdinand hits eleven-year-old Bruno with a stick in a playground punch-up and knocks out two of his teeth, the enlightened parents meet to talk things over. But once the niceties are done with and the drink starts flowing, it is the parents who turn into spoilt brats.
Show Time: 7:45pm
Access: BSL Interpreted
Thursday 13th February
Venue: Stratford East
Show: The Gift - A subversive comedy drama about imperialism, cross-racial adoption, cultural appropriation... and tea. Brighton, 1862. A day in the life of Sarah, an African girl, adopted by Queen Victoria and raised in the Queen’s circles. Today is the eve of her having to return to Africa but will she go? The Present. A day in the life of Sarah, a black middle-class woman staying in a Cheshire village with her husband and small child. They are paid a visit by well-meaning neighbours who have something to confess. The two Sarahs meet Queen Victoria for tea. This won’t be your regular tea party…
Show Time: 7:30pm
Access: BSL Interpreted Performance
Wednesday 26th February
Venue: Cambridge Arts Theatre
Show: The Woman in Black - A lawyer, obsessed with a curse that he believes has been cast over him and his family by the spectre of a woman in black, engages a sceptical young actor to help him tell his terrifying story and exorcise the fear that grips his soul.
Show Time: 7:45pm
Access: BSL Interpreted
Wednesday 26th February
Venue: Shaftesbury Theatre
Show: & Juliet - & Juliet picks up where Romeo And Juliet leaves off. Romeo lies poisoned, Juliet awakens from her slumber, picks up the dagger and… decides to live. Off she sets to Paris with Nurse and her friends, a hilarious, comical journey of romance and self-discovery, accompanied by some of the biggest pop anthems of the past three decades.
Show Time: 7:30pm
Access: BSL Interpreted Performance
Friday 28th February
Venue: Tobacco Factory Bristol
Show: Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? - Two professors and their wives living the American Dream. Following an innocent invitation after a college campus party, the paper-thin illusion that all is well starts to peel away as George and Martha realise they have a captive audience for their toxic domestic games. As dawn approaches, there is only one way this party can end. And whether they like it or not, everyone must play their part.
Show Time: 7:30pm
Access: BSL Interpreted Performance
Relaxed Performance
Saturday 1st February
Venue: Buxton Opera House - Cinema
Show: Spies in Disguise - Super spy Lance Sterling (Will Smith) and scientist Walter Beckett (Tom Holland) are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave and debonair. Walter is... not. But what Walter lacks in social skills he makes up for in smarts and invention, creating the awesome gadgets Lance uses on his epic missions. But when events take an unexpected turn, Walter and Lance suddenly have to rely on each other in a whole new way. And if this odd couple can't learn to work as a team, the whole world is in peril. Spies in Disguise is an animated comedy set in the high-octane globe-trotting world of international espionage.
Show Time: 10:30am
Access: Relaxed Performance
Sunday 9th February
Venue: Curve Theatre Leicester
Show: I Say – The Annual Comedy Conversation featuring Lost Voice Guy - Lost Voice Guy is perhaps one of the most popular comedians in the UK. He’s been a regular at Leicester Comedy Festival for many years and this is your chance to hear him interviewed by Festival Director, Geoff Rowe. Hear how he got into comedy, and how he went on to win Britain’s Got Talent in 2018.
Show Time: 2:00pm
Access: Relaxed Performance
Tuesday 11th February
Venue: Curve Theatre Leicester
Show: It’s Hot, It’s Not - Some call it our nation’s obsession but where would we be without the weather? It’s Hot, It’s Not is a celebration of climatic events by the major international performance company Reckless Sleepers, renowned for creating bold, innovative and, above all, original work. A highly visual show with no spoken language and plenty of music and sound effects.
Show Time: 1:30pm
Access: Relaxed Performance
Thursday 13th February
Venue: Stratford East
Show: The Gift - A subversive comedy drama about imperialism, cross-racial adoption, cultural appropriation... and tea. Brighton, 1862. A day in the life of Sarah, an African girl, adopted by Queen Victoria and raised in the Queen’s circles. Today is the eve of her having to return to Africa but will she go? The Present. A day in the life of Sarah, a black middle-class woman staying in a Cheshire village with her husband and small child. They are paid a visit by well-meaning neighbours who have something to confess. The two Sarahs meet Queen Victoria for tea. This won’t be your regular tea party…
Show Time: 2:30pm
Access: Relaxed Performance
Saturday 15th February
Venue: Buxton Opera House - Cinema
Show: Paw Patrol - It's the Adventure Bay 500 and legendary race car driver, The Whoosh, can't compete! The pups speed into action to help Marshall take the wheel against cheating rival, The Cheetah, for the championship trophy in this all-new Paw Patrol movie!
Show Time: 10:30am
Access: Relaxed Performance
Silver Screening
Monday 3rd February
Venue: Buxton Opera House - Cinema
Show: 1917 - At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield (Captain Fantastic's George MacKay) and Blake (Game of Thrones' Dean-Charles Chapman) are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers— Blake's own brother among them.
Show Time: 1:30pm
Access: Silver Screening (everyone is welcome, but seniors only pay £5 and get a free tea or coffee before the screening.)
Monday 10th February
Venue: Buxton Opera House - Cinema
Show: The Railway Children – Classic film tells the story of three children who move to Yorkshire with their mother after the enforced absence of their father. During their adventures they attempt to discover the reason for his disappearance.
Show Time: 1:30pm
Access: Silver Screening (everyone is welcome, but seniors only pay £5 and get a free tea or coffee before the screening.)
Monday 17th February
Venue: Buxton Opera House - Cinema
Show: The Personal History of David Copperfield – From birth to infancy, from adolescence to adulthood, the good-hearted David Copperfield is surrounded by kindness, wickedness, poverty and wealth, as he meets an array of remarkable characters in Victorian England. As David sets out to be a writer, in his quest for family, friendship, romance and status, the story of his life is the most seductive tale of all.
Show Time: 1:30pm
Access: Silver Screening (everyone is welcome, but seniors only pay £5 and get a free tea or coffee before the screening.)
Monday 24th February
Venue: Buxton Opera House - Cinema
Show: A Streetcar Named Desire – Classic movie with legendary performances of Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando. In the sticky heat of New Orleans’ French Quarter, Blanche DuBois, a small-town beauty who feels her best years are behind her, arrives at the modest apartment of her sister Stella and her explosive husband Stanley Kowalski.
Show Time: 1:30pm
Access: Silver Screening (everyone is welcome, but seniors only pay £5 and get a free tea or coffee before the screening.)