Shakespeare's Globe retells Antony and Cleopatra with British Sign Language

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In a step towards better inclusivity, Shakespeare's Globe in London is presenting a retelling of Antony and Cleopatra with some actors using British Sign Language on stage.

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00:00I think it's very helpful, helpful for us, helpful for the audience, sometimes shakes

00:29bear can be quite difficult, people cannot be quite sure what they're saying and actually

00:35Egypt in this production is a gestural country whose first language is sign language, Rome

00:39is led by the voice and actually we've found it maps brilliantly onto the world of the

00:44play, it's very readable for an audience whether they know Shakespeare or not and it's a fantastic

00:48way to open the play up to a wider audience.

00:53Deaf people, it's an invisible disability, you don't know somebody's deaf, so if there's

00:58an emergency, a train station, the fact that anyone within the community could potentially

01:04sign to a deaf member of society, I think it's really, really important and it's important

01:08to not be a second class citizen, it's about being a first class citizen.

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