Audio-described touch tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical CATS, designed for blind and visually impaired audiences.
CATS is coming to Milton Keynes Theatre on Saturday 5 June 2027, but this isn't a standard matinee. It's a touch tour, an audio-described showing designed for blind and visually impaired audiences. The whole thing is built around letting people experience the set and the costumes by touch while the story is narrated, so you get to feel the world of the show rather than just watch it from a seat.
The show itself is based on T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. It follows the strays and rebels of London as they gather under the Jellicle moon, each one hoping to be chosen and daring to ask 'who will it be?'. If you've never seen it, that's the basic setup: a community of cats meeting on a specific night to decide which one of them gets a chance at a new life.
Because it's a touch tour, the experience is quite different from a regular performance. Instead of sitting in the stalls and watching the action unfold on stage, you'll be guided around the set and the costumes, getting a hands-on sense of the scale and the detail that usually stays out of reach. The audio description runs alongside, filling in the gaps and narrating the story as you go, so the plot stays clear even when you're not looking at the stage. It's a way of experiencing the production that's usually only available to a small number of people, and it's specifically aimed at blind and visually impaired audiences.
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It's a Saturday afternoon showing, starting at 13:00 at Milton Keynes Theatre, 500 Marlborough Gate, MK9 3NZ. Tickets start from £0, so it's an accessible way to get into a show that's usually a big production.
