“Theatre and Accessibility in a Digital World Symposium” (2019); Photo Credit: Moonrider Productions
Before the non-profit society VocalEye launched in Vancouver in 2009, Amy Amantea, who lives with legal blindness, felt lost when she went out to enjoy live theatre. “I was having a very expensive two-hour nap. I’d buy a ticket, I’d sit in the nice, dark, comfy theatre, and I couldn’t follow the plotline to save my life. So, it got boring. I would hear people laugh or ooh or aah, and I would have no idea what we were engaged with, so I couldn’t be a part of that,” she says. Now, thanks to VocalEye’s live
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