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re: SPRING AWAKENING at Deaf West - Brilliant production!

Posted by:	Pir8Jenny 01:18 am EDT 10/12/14
In reply to:	SPRING AWAKENING at Deaf West - Brilliant production! - bicoastal 11:26 am EDT 10/11/14

I reviewed it here (scroll down to about September 18). As for whether Pippin had Deaf CHARACTERS -- hard to say. They were Deaf actors, surely, but in many previous Deaf West productions, there's little actual acknowledgement of whether any character in particular is Deaf or hearing, and the shows seem to take place in a world where everyone understands everyone else. (Indeed, one of my problems with the company's recent "Flowers for Algernon" was that I couldn't actually figure out whether Charly was Deaf or hearing.) In retrospect, I think that was one of the things that was so stunning about the Deaf West "Cyrano" -- because I'd seen so many of their productions in which everyone DOES understand each other, and then they just jumped right on in with a Deaf Cyrano in a hearing world.

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