Access All Areas

Award winning, disruptive and urban performances by learning disabled artists.

Mission

Access All Areas produce urban and disruptive performances with learning disabled artists and offer accessible performance training to create a new generation of quality theatre makers that raise aspiration and challenge public perceptions. 

 Strategic Goals

• Create ambitious and contemporary performance work by professional learning disabled artists.
• Raise aspirations and increase employment opportunities for future generations of people with learning disabilities within the performing arts
• Creatively engage a broad range of learning disabled people with developing key life skills through accessible take part participation programmes
• Challenge public perceptions of learning disabilities through the performing arts.
• Embed a best practice approach to access and inclusion throughout the company.

Eye Queue Hear

Duration: 60

Description: "Philosophical, mischievous, exuberantly accessible" - The stage

‘Eye Queue Hear’ takes the audience on an audio journey from your theatre around the nearby streets to watch and listen in on the lives of learning disabled artists and their perceptions of urban life. This ground-breaking audio-tour performance is adapted for each location, opening up a beautiful new way of seeing your local streets, and giving you the time and space to fully experience the urban spaces so familiar to you.

Extra information: Trailer: https://youtu.be/kWp2Ya1j7v4
This performance is an outdoor, headphone led performance with a maximum audience of 30.

People on road: 10

Freight: none

MADHOUSE re-exit

Duration: 60

Description: "You could just hear it outside, the screaming and what have you, you'd think you were going into a madhouse" - Mabel Cooper

A site- specific production set in an asylum, working with 5 learning-disabled artists. MADHOUSE re-exit will be a joyous reclaiming of the history of institutionalisation of people with learning disabilities, and at a time when people are being re-institutionalised and isolated in their own homes, this will echo a refusal to be gently 'put back in'. We have just started development of this piece through Barbican OpenLab, and the performance will be available for touring from 2017.

People on road: 12

Freight: necessary

The Misfit Analysis

Duration: 60

Description: "Utterly fascinating and wildly creative ... definitely and defiantly different" - Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

“Quirky, informative and funny … an insight into an autistic mind.” –_New York Times

Cian has autism. He likes to spin tin-openers. He’s taught all the actors on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time how to be autistic. They’re very good at it.

Journeying through Cian’s mischievous mind, 'The Misfit Analysis' takes us through a world of wheelchairs and blow up dolls in an unconventional exploration of an autistic mind. This is not Rain Man. Using multi-media, video projection and his unique brand of performance poetry, Cian playfully questions the place of disability in today’s world.

The Misfit Analysis is available to tour after a sell out run at Edinburgh Festival Fringe and appearances on BBC 1.

Extra information: TRAILER:
https://youtu.be/IzwANpk9yAo

People on road: 3

Freight: none

MADHOUSE my house
Working in partnership with the Open University and University of East London we will provide creative digital training for people with learning disabilities throughout London. The project will culminate in The Living Archive: a digital archive of the social history of learning disability aimed at giving people with learning disabilities an accessible way to engage with this history.

“A strong and distinct disabled aesthetic that may itself be an agent for change” – The Guardian

“A quirky, informative, and funny insight into an autistic mind” – New York Times

“Utterly fascinating and wildly creative” – The Guardian

“Philosophical, mischievous, and exuberantly accessible” – The Stage