This January, 2016 is called "Spring Awakening" in New York, New York , 256 West 47th Street are actress Marlee Matlin (from Switch at Birth) and Camryn Manheim (from The Practice) and actor Daniel Durant (from Switch at Birth).
The Boarding's Books Atkinson Theatre, is based on a 1891 Frank Wedekind play of the same name. The musical, examining teenage sexuality on late 19th Century Germany, won 8 Tony Awards in it first Broadway run in 2006.
I didn't go because I am not excepting and I had good reasons.
This April 28th - May 15th, 2016 is called "Ultrasound" in Toronto, Ontario are actress Elizabeth Morris and actor Chris Dodd.
She went to Gallaudent University from 2000 - 2004.
I didn't go and Deaf Ottawa didn't go, either.
Ultrasound begins with Alphonse a deaf accountant, surprising his wife, Miranda, a hard-of-hearing actress, with a sonnet for her 29th birthday.
It’s Sonnet 29, and Alphonse delivers it, with gestural eloquence, in American Sign Language, as Shakespeare’s words are projected behind him “When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes. He adds a knowing look when the protagonist troubles “deaf heaven” with his “bootless cries,” and he somehow found his version more stirring than most recitations of the poem.
It wasn’t dance. It wasn’t mime. It was embodied poetry, felt and physicalized, and a delight to watch – even if you don’t understand ASL.
Early on in Ultrasound then, playwright Adam Pottle is laying the groundwork for the audience to agree with Alphonse when he later asserts, “Deaf isn’t a disability, it’s a culture.” But Alphonse, initially charmingly reserved, has become less than sympathetic at that point.
Ultrasound’s plot concerns what, at first, seems a rather banal conflict between partners. Miranda wants to have a baby before she turns 30, while Alphonse is in no rush. As it turns out, however, Alphonse only really wants to have a baby if it will grow up to be a part of his culture. As he explains, “Whenever a hearing person tries to talk to her, he feel weak.” He wants genetic testing done before he agrees to procreate.
That may already strain the inclusive sentiment of the hearing crowd. But it reaches the breaking point when, after a couple of white lies on Miranda’s part, she becomes pregnant with a baby that will likely not be deaf – and Alphonse asks her to have an abortion.
Miranda feels Alphonse has moved beyond deaf pride and transformed into a “deaf nationalist.” She may be losing her hearing and speech (a concern she seems to have largely channelled toward her womb), but she still identifies with the hearing world.
Theatre, particularly in the English-speaking world, has traditionally not been very welcoming to the deaf and the hard of hearing, prioritizing spoken language over visual communication.
“You can take a deaf person to a movie; you can’t take a blind person. You can take a blind person to a play; you can’t take a deaf person.”
Sometimes helping hearing audience members follow the ASL dialogue, sometimes helping deaf spectators follow the spoken dialogue.
In early scenes, in particular, Alphonse and Miranda lay out their disagreement in dialogue with little subtext. The central contrivance that the couple, well into their marriage, seem to have never seriously discussed the details of having kids before makes them seem ill-matched and immature and thus hard to invest in.
That fact that Dodd and Morris have little chemistry only makes their relationship seem that much more tragic. In the end, you may not want them to stay together and you may not like either of them, but their desire to stay together despite their awful behaviour feels honestly heart-wrenching.
This June 2nd, 2016 at 7:30pm - 9:30pm my daughter Isabella and I went to saw and Tommy - ASL Interpreted Performance at Centrepointe Theatre Ben Franklin Place 101 Centrepointe Drive.
We had 2 hearing Interpreters, 1 Deaf Interpreter, 3 hearing plus Isabella , 7 deaf people's plus me are totals 15 peoples.
We got free tickets by Deaf Community.
Orpheus Musical Theatre Society Presents
The Who's Tommy
Based on the icon 1969 rock concept album. The who's Tommy is an exhilarating story of hope, healing, and the human spirit. After witnessing the murder of his mother's lover by his father, young Tommy is traumatized into a catatonic state. As he grows, he suffers abuse at the hands of his dysfunctional relatives and neighbors. As an adolescent, he's discovered to have an uncanny knack for playing pinball. With the help of his mother he finally breaks through his catatonia and becomes an international pinball superstar. The story of the pinball-playing, deaf, dumb and blind boy who triumphs over his adversities has inspired, amazed and puzzled audiences for more than forty years. This 5 time Tony Award-winning musical was translated to the stage by theatrical wizard Des McAnuff into a high-energy, one-of-a-kind theatrical event.
I got Nepean - Barrhaven News from newspaper.
We got free tickets.
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