Because sensory theatre productions are designed with neurodiverse audiences in mind, practitioners are first and foremost concerned with accessibility at all levels for their audience members, incorporating multiple senses throughout a performance to allow a variety of entry points for audiences that may have wildly divergent—and often competing—access needs. One-to-one interaction between performers and audience members results in highly flexible performances that respond to physical and auditory input from individual audience members, through which performers curate customized multisensory experiences that communicate the production's theatrical world to its audience. Given this reliance on close-up interaction, the circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic have posed a particular challenge for sensory theatre makers. In in-person sensory theatre, performers focus on neurodivergent audience members, with parents and paid carers often taking a (literal) back seat, but remotely delivered sensory theatre during COVID-19 hinges on the carer's facilitation of sensory engagement curated by sensory theatre practitioners. Oily Cart, a pioneering London-based sensory theatre company, responded to COVID-19 restrictions with a season of work presented in various formats in audiences’ homes, and their production Space to Be marked a shift in the company's audience engagement to include an emphasis on the carer's experience.1 Using this production as a case study, I argue that the pivotal role adopted by carers during the pandemic has the potential to shape future in-person productions, moving practitioners toward a more holistic, neurodiverse audience experience that challenges a disabled–nondisabled binary by embracing carers’ experiences alongside those of neurodivergent audience members.2

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Oily Cart 的未来空间：探索护理人员在 COVID-19 期间神经多样性观众感官剧场中的作用

由于感官剧场作品的设计考虑到了具有神经多样性的观众，因此从业者首先关心其观众成员在各个层面的可及性，在整个表演中融入多种感官，以便为可能有很大差异的观众提供各种切入点 - 和经常竞争——访问需求。表演者和观众之间的一对一互动产生了高度灵活的表演，这些表演响应了来自个别观众成员的身体和听觉输入，表演者通过这种方式策划定制的多感官体验，将制作的戏剧世界传达给观众。鉴于这种对近距离互动的依赖，围绕 COVID-19 大流行的情况对感官剧场制造商提出了特别的挑战。在面对面的感官剧院中，表演者专注于神经发散的观众，父母和付费照顾者通常坐在（字面）后座，但在 COVID-19 期间远程交付的感官剧场取决于照顾者促进感官剧场从业者策划的感官参与. Oily Cart 是一家总部位于伦敦的开创性感官剧院公司，响应 COVID-19 的限制，在观众家中以各种形式呈现的一季作品及其制作存在的空间标志着公司的观众参与发生了转变，包括强调照顾者的体验。1以此作品为案例研究，我认为护理人员在大流行期间所扮演的关键角色有可能塑造未来的面对面制作，使从业者走向更全面、神经多样化的观众体验，通过拥抱挑战残疾-非残疾二元照顾者的经历与神经发散的观众成员的经历一起。2