Have a look at the video asking people what they thought about the workshops. Deafinately theatre are working with Black Country Touring and Deaf Cultural Centre to create a new play. To expose Deaf and hard of hearing people to this artistic process they are running a series of workshops with community groups in the Black Country and Birmingham. The purpose of the workshops is for Deafinitely’s writer to gather a wide range of opinions from community groups, including young people, about a given subject, such as deafness in the past and future. It is not our intention that the community groups “write” a play, but their reactions to, and discussions about the given topic will provide a broader background of material from which the writer and director draw when creating the script. The groups participating will have had an influence upon the creative process of Deafinitely Theatre Company and because of their participation in this process, we hope a greater interest in the show that is finally produced.