In order to foster true social inclusion, Short Theatre strives to favour the accessibility of the festival’s venues and contents and the presence of disabled and marginalised artists within the festival’s programme schedule and is committed to promoting interventions that are fully integrated into the festival’s dramaturgical and aesthetic lines.
After an intense three-year journey of experimentation in the relationship between performing arts and disability, Short Theatre 2025 broadens the horizon of reflection on accessibility and defines a field that acts both on the content and on the infrastructural level of the festival, and therefore on procedures and tools, articulating different activities for different areas of intervention: sensory disability, accessibility by age, social class, racial discrimination.
During Short Theatre 2025, Area06 implements certain actions by assuming them as structural practices in its operation, such as the LIS interpreting of certain meeting moments and the poetic audio description, by Giuseppe Comuniello and Camilla Guarino/ Al.Di.Qua Artists, of a performance, Gherminella by Miranda Secondari, thanks to which it becomes accessible to blind and visually impaired people.
The graphics, website, social channels and printed materials of the Festival are accessible, created according to the protocols established by Disability Studies
Between 2022 and 2024, the project (‘Reciprocity’) included workshops on participatory practices for blind and/or deaf people exploring various contemporary artistic languages (held by Giuseppe Comuniello and Camilla Guarino, Marta Bellu and Laura Lucioli, Chiara Bersani, Leonardo Zaccone and Giuseppe Silvi, Alessandro Bosetti), training sessions for the festival staff, round tables in collaboration with the Al.Di.Qua Artists collective, and the presentation of performances (by Muta Imago, Chiara Bersani and Diana Anselmo) suitable for an audience with disabilities.
