This programme ran in 2010 at the Pervasive Media Studio. For more projects like these please visit the Studio website.

Projects 2010

Company Profile

Tin Bath is a theatre company formed by writer/producer Sophie Wooley and director Gemma Fairlie to produce interactive theatre that is accessible to deaf and hard of hearing people. The company explore new ways of incorporating subtitling into productions to make theatre fully accessible to the deaf community.

The project was hosted and co-produced by mac birmingham.

Produced in collaboration with The Mixed Reality Lab, Nottingham.

Journal Authors

Gemma Fairlie

Sophie Woolley

You’re so happy I want to die

by Tin Bath

Most theatre and new writing is inaccessible to deaf and hard of hearing people. Existing captioning technology is old fashioned and doesn't take advantage of creative software programming advances. Tin Bath wanted to experiment with ways to subtitle theatre more creatively and responsively. The project was commissioned by Theatre Sandbox in 2010 and resulted in You’re So Happy I Want To Die, a two-woman comedy show which incorporated the captioning system into the performance.

The system comprised of text-based captions and moving images which designed to enhance the theatre experience for deaf and hearing audiences alike. Triggered by changes in volume, pitch and tone, the captions were designed to highlight and enhance key dialogue and comic moments, intensify drama, and provide audiences with a visual representation of emotion. Pervasive media was used to develop the captions, which responded to the live nature of theatre in a dynamic and visually stimulating way.

View the Project Film on DShed.

Journal Entries

Journal Entries

2nd Blog – Flip charts and fantasies.

Fri 30 Jul, 2010

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Captionistas! Plan of attack

Wed 14 Jul, 2010

Tin Bath director Gemma Fairlie and myself (Sophie Woolley) are developing our creative captioning system for a new comedy called You’re So Happy I Want to Die. Bit of a mouthful, but we hope it hints at a modern malaise, the Facebook envy that some people (not us, oh no) get when internet stalking.

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