Szepty/Whispers – Watch Now

Now available On Demand

Note: Due to a technical error on the recording date the intended projection design in the evenings performance is not fully represented.

About the Show

In Szepty/Whispers, a neurodivergent artist probes their family’s silence around mental health, sifting through traces of the past. As they grapple with the risks and possibilities of disclosure, they question how culture, migration, and trauma shape generational perspectives on disability. Through fragments of personal narrative, documentary material, and multimedia design, Szepty/Whispers attempts to connect across silence – to find kinship without a shared language.

‍Szepty/Whispers experiments with a creative approach to accessibility, embedding audio description into the performer’s lines and captions into the projection design. The writer/performer is neurodivergent, mad, chronically ill, and non-binary. The creative team includes intersectional Deaf, disabled, mad, and neurodivergent artists. The project strives to centre our realities, bringing our communities together, while recognizing our diverse and sometimes contrasting needs.

Inspired by artistic groups like Sins Invalid (a queer and BIPOC disabled collective), we recognize how solidarity is essential and all liberation movements are connected.

90 minutes, no intermission.

Image credit: Christian Yves Jones

Tickets

All tickets $25, including all service fees. Click here to purchase.

If a $25 is not realistic for you, please feel free to use code Szepty15 for a $15 pricing option.

If you experience financial barriers but still wish to access this piece, we want to have you there! Please send a note to Libby Willoughby (she/her) via email at libby@pitheatre.com and we will be happy to set a ticket aside for you.

Accessibility Practices

Visual Story

View the Progress Lab 1422 visual story here, as a word doc or a PDF. This guide will help answer questions such as accessing the venue by bus, where to park, and how to navigate the Progress Lab building.

Pre-Show Audio Description

This description lasts approximately 6 minutes, and is intended to increase access for blind and partially sighted audience members. Although anyone is welcome to listen!

• ‍an Audience Access Coordinator will be present at every show
• ASL interpreted performance on December 3, with a dedicated interpreter available pre and post show
• pre-show audio guide for blind & partially sighted communities
• visual story for the venue & show
• detailed content & sensory warnings
• audio description embedded into the performer’s lines
• captions embedded into the show’s projection design
• audiences will be free to move, make noise, leave, and return during the show
• separate quiet space
• flexible & wheelchair accessible seating
• gender neutral & wheelchair accessible washrooms
• COVID-19 safety practices such as masking are highly encouraged in the space to help protect vulnerable audience members, hand sanitizer will be available all around the venue, and high touch points will be frequently sanitized by staff
• We ask that audience members avoid wearing scented products, to make the space accessible for people with chemical sensitivities and allergies. You can find more info about fragrance-free access here
• online video version of the show for audiences to experience at home, release date TBD (will be announced on social media, via email, and on Rumble and Pi’s website)