I want to call attention to audio description for the visually impaired. It is available at no extra charge, so sighted people can invite blind friends to accompany them to plays and movies. Hopefully, it can become common knowledge that people who are losing their sight can still enjoy the camaraderie of going with friends and family to a play, a movie, the ballet or the opera.

Cary Players is producing Agatha Christie's play "And Then There Were None." An audio-described performance will be Feb. 12. Cary Players typically offers some free tickets for blind patrons and their drivers.

Meanwhile, Triangle Radio Reading Service is broadcasting a reading of the novel from which the play was adapted. It is being done in a series of one-hour segments with a cast of volunteer readers.

Sighted people have the luxury of being able to read a book and then see the play. This collaboration allows blind people to listen to the novel and then listen to the play.

Kurt Benrud

Cary