THE Blue Room Theatre kicked off its 2015 season with the introduction of Auslan interpreters for selected shows.

Eastern states theatre have use deaf interpreters for some time and Victorian-based, Auslan Stage Left, says Perth’s deaf community wants the same.

“It’s giving deaf people the opportunity to see different types of theatre,” co-director Susan Emerson says.

• from The Epic

She’s one of two Auslan interpreters travelling west with The Lion King. It’s a gruelling stint, but having grown up the only hearing person in a deaf family she’s a fluent translator.

“I play all the female characters, and the animals.”

Voice readers have missed the Blue Room’s first Auslan show, Amour, but can catch The Epic, June 11.

Performance poets Finn O’Branagain and Scott Sandwich are story enthusiasts and share their love of myths and legends in a show that questions what we know about stories of old. It’s on June 8 to 11.

by JENNY D’ANGER