Theater of the Deaf - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

This. program demonstrates the "theater of manual communication," which speaks to the deaf as well as people with normal hearing. Cameras focus on directors Arthur Penn, Gene Lasko and Joe Layton as they work with deaf people in excerpts ...See moreThis. program demonstrates the "theater of manual communication," which speaks to the deaf as well as people with normal hearing. Cameras focus on directors Arthur Penn, Gene Lasko and Joe Layton as they work with deaf people in excerpts from well-known plays. No dialog is used by the actors, a translator explains the hand and body movements. Penn directs a scene from his Broadway production "All the Way Home;" Lasko, who has been Penn's associate in movie and stage work, directs the deaf actors in a scene from "Hamlet;" and Joe Layton, who staged the Barbra Streisand specials, leads the performers in "Fugue for Tinhorns" (from "Guys and Dolls"), "Gesticulate" and the soliloquies from "South Pacific." Nanette Fabray (who is herself hard of hearing) is the narrator.See less