July 14, 2000
On Prospero's Island, Deaf and Hearing Students Learn to Act Together
The production of The Tempest begins as every other one does: a violent storm, a ship wracked by wind and waves.
This ship, however, is created not by set designers, but by the bodies of the actors themselves, arranged in the shape of prow and hull, moving together like a corps de ballet. Their motion creates the high winds and boiling seas -- the rocking and pitching of their torsos, the writhing of their arms. When they hurl themselves apart, they go sprawling across the stage like
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