New Extant production States of Mind - Interview with Director and Writer Christopher Hunter

Christopher Hunter is a visually impaired Theatre Director and Writer who has turned Shakespeare’s poem ‘Venus and Adonis’ into a new Extant production ‘States of Mind’ for this year’s Bloomsbury Festival. 

The performance of ‘States of Mind’ will be on Saturday 16 October at 8.30pm at RADA Studios, 16 Chenies Street, London WC1E 7EX. As with many Extant productions the performance has integrated audio description and if you can’t make it to London you can catch the live stream of the production too.

RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey court up with Christopher in a slightly noisy rehearsal room to find out more about Christopher’s background as a Director and Writer as well as how he has turned Shakespeare’s poem ‘Venus and Adonis’ into ‘States of Mind’.

Christopher tells Toby about how he cast two visually impaired Actors Gillian Dean and Robin Paley-York in ’States of Mind’.

Christopher ended the interview by giving his advice to other visually impaired people on how best to start a career in the performing arts whether that is on stage or back stage.

The premier of ‘States of Mind’ will be on Saturday 16 October at 8.30pm at the RADA Studios in London and More details can be found by visiting the Extant website - https://extant.org.uk

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