On Prospero's Island, Deaf and Hearing Students Learn to Act Together

By ZOE INGALLS

New York

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...