Augmented Tour & festival streaming 2020-2021
Photo by Justin Munitz
5th/6th/7th March Manchester Royal Exchange.
9th/10th/11th March Birmingham Rep.
17th -21 March Plymouth Theatre Royal, Drum. (Cancelled due to pandemic)
25th March Cambridge Junction. (Cancelled due to lockdown)
2, 4, 5 April Wellcome Collection (Cancelled due to lockdown)
There is a film version of Augmented which has streamed at online festivals during the Covid 19 pandemic:
Gateshead International Theatre Festival (GIFT) 5 May 2020
Dumfries & Galloway Festival 8October.
Southbank Centre's Unlimited Festival 13-15 January 2021
Reviews for Augmented
Augmented gained 4 star reviews before the pandemic cut the tour short. The streamed version of the show also won 5 star reviews.
"Humour, honesty, invention"
The Stage (4 stars)
"Rachel Bagshaw’s direction is clear and powerful"
Augmented is a beautifully conceived piece that acts as a rallying call, championing good accessible theatre and the benefits of cochlear implant surgery. A must see, whatever your background.
Quay's Life (4 stars)
"Sophie Woolley is objectively, thoroughly, and undoubtedly hilarious. Her comedy is unassuming, astute, and Augmented is oozing with the kind of authentic, gritty observational humour that we Brits are so proud of."
Production photos by Helen Murray.
From going deaf in her 20s to being activated/switched on as a real-life ‘cyborg’, Sophie Woolley’s brand new play is a personal story of the joy and conflict of becoming ‘hearing’ again after years of total deafness. ‘A totally unique writer.. an absolutely amazing performer’ (Irvine Welsh on Sophie Woolley’s Augmented) 14+
ACCESS: Every performance Augmented is captioned. The show is relaxed, which means audience members can leave and come back in and make noise.
ACCESS: Every performance Augmented is captioned. The show is relaxed, which means audience members can leave and come back in and make noise.
Augmented is the inaugural show for Augmented Productions and is produced by Told by an Idiot's leading producer, Jenni Grainger. The show is in association with Told by an Idiot.
Writer & performer: Sophie Woolley
Director: Rachel Bagshaw
Designer: Laura Hopkins & Khadija Raza
Lighting & video design: Joshua Pharo
Sound design: Adrienne Quartly
Movement Direction: Rachel Drazek
Dramaturg: Sarah Dickenson
Audio Description: Michael Achtman
BSL consultant with SSE focus: Jean St Clair
Original producer Kendall Masson
Tour booking Emily Lunnon
R&D choreography Martyn Garside
R&D movement Lucia Tong
Secret music by Lee Affen
