Unheard

Photo credit: Parkway

UNHEARD is an immersive, autobiographical theatre piece exploring living with the hidden disability of degenerative  hearing loss, tinnitus - and childhood trauma - through a combination of live physical storytelling, recorded scripted scenes of the play, a carefully composed soundscape and audience interaction in and around issues of hearing and hearing loss. The audience are brought right into the experience by wearing headphones throughout and experiencing sound and conversations as a person with hearing loss would. 

Creative team: Ness Haynes, John D'Arcy and Hanna Slattne 

Audience feedback from pilot project: 

“The use of headphones was very effective. Feel like I have learned more from this immersive theatre than I have from verbal and written communication alone. I thought about the people in my life that have sensory impairment”.

“More than just the physiological loss…I assumed I knew what hearing impairment was – I was wrong!”

Vanessa Haynes during the recording of Unheard