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EchoGuide™ Theatre
REAL-TIME REHEARSAL FOR ACTORS, DRAMA STUDENTS AND MIXED-ABILITY CASTS
Walk on stage with the words lit before you
No loose pages. No lost lines. No paper in trembling hands.
EchoGuide Theatre is the real-time rehearsal partner built for the stage. Upload your script, press go, and as you speak the app lights up the next word as a beacon, guiding your eye through every line.
Attach vocal, movement, emotional and blocking cues to any word; rehearse with a calm, dyslexia-supportive screen at your side; and step into the lights knowing the words are with you, not behind you.
The phrase that captures it best is "no loose pages."
Performers are not standing on stage clutching paper, fumbling cue cards, or dreading the moment they lose their place. They have their words in front of them, with a quiet guide lighting the way through every line. That changes how a young person holds themselves in front of an audience, and it changes how an audience receives what they have to say.
What EchoGuide Theatre does
The same engine that powers EchoGuide Pro, extended for the rehearsal room and the stage.
Cue authoring per word
Tap any word in your script and attach a vocal, movement, emotional or blocking cue. The cue surfaces as the beacon reaches the word, then quietly fades. Perfect for directors building precise performances with their cast.
Multi-language options
Rehearse in the language the performance is written in. Built for multilingual casts, bilingual productions, and educators working with EAL students who need their first-language scaffolding alongside the performance text.
Dyslexia-supportive design
Approved warm reading backgrounds, grounded in the Rello & Bigham (2017) ASSETS study on cognitive load and reading time. Inclusive by default, not as a bolt-on.
Colour-coded performance heatmaps
See pace, emphasis and pause patterns across a full script at a glance. Identify the moments that need more breath, the lines that are rushing past, the beats that should land harder. Built for directors and performers reviewing rehearsals together.
Beacon highlighting
The brightest point on screen sits four words ahead of where you actually are, pulling your eye gently forward. The beacon glides; it never leaps. Built for the stage, where any visual jolt is a problem.
Drag-to-reposition
If a missed cue throws the beacon off, the performer is still in charge. Press on any word and drag the beacon to where you actually are; the recogniser picks up smoothly from the new spot.
Mixed-ability ensemble support
Designed for casts where neurodivergent, dyslexic and traditionally-trained performers share the same stage. Each performer chooses their own reading background, font and pacing without affecting the others.
Fuzzy phonetic matching
EchoGuide listens phonetically, not literally. It forgives accent, pace, contractions and small paraphrasing, so it does not stall when a real human voice does what real human voices do under the lights.
Who EchoGuide Theatre is for
Anyone, of any age or experience, who wants to rehearse with clarity and walk on stage with calm.
Actors of all ages
Child, teen, adult, amateur, professional. The Year 10 student preparing for a school production, the drama student rehearsing for an audition, the adult amateur returning to the stage after years away.
Drama teachers and directors
Build a director's view of where a performance is rushing, dragging, or finding its rhythm. Attach blocking cues to specific words. Watch a colour-coded map of how a scene is landing, week by week, as your cast rehearses.
Schools, colleges and youth theatres
Drama departments, college performing-arts programmes, youth theatre companies and community drama groups. Site-licensed access for whole casts, with the same calm tool in every performer's hands.
Neurodivergent and mixed-ability performers
Dyslexic readers, autistic performers, ADHD actors and anyone whose brain processes language differently. EchoGuide Theatre adapts to the performer, not the other way around; the screen quietly fits the reader in front of it.
Why this exists
Picture a student who can speak beautifully in conversation, then watch her freeze the moment a script lands in her hands. Twelve years in English and Drama classrooms watching that happen, in different schools, with different students, in the same shape of moment.
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EchoGuide Theatre is the tool I needed and never had. I built it because I stopped waiting for someone else to fix it.
It is for the Year 10 student who has been told she talks too much in class but goes silent in front of an examiner. It is for the drama student who knows every line in rehearsal and forgets them all on the night. It is for the adult amateur performer who loves the stage but hates what nerves do to them. It is for the parent who wants something practical for a child who struggles with spoken assessments. And it is for every teacher who has watched a student shrink, and quietly wished there was something better.
Subscribe to EchoGuide Theatre
Two simple options. The same complete tool, whichever you choose.
Monthly
ROLLING SUBSCRIPTION
£14.99
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per month
Annual
12 MONTHS' ACCESS
£99
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per year
Every subscription starts with a 7-day free trial. Cancel any time before the trial ends with one click.
What's included with every subscription
Real-time beacon highlighting
Cue authoring (vocal, movement, emotional, blocking)
Multi-language script support
Drag-to-reposition
Director's review tools
Offline-first PWA on any device
Fuzzy phonetic speech matching
Colour-coded performance heatmaps
Dyslexia-supportive reading modes
Calm and high-contrast visual options
Mixed-ability ensemble settings
Free updates for the life of the subscription
Safeguarding-first
EchoGuide Theatre was built for young performers, mixed-ability casts and rehearsal rooms where dignity matters more than data.