Word: deafness
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...Gentle into That Good Night, had Melvyn Douglas shunted off to a nursing home by his grown children. ABC, in Johnny Belinda, showed Mia Farrow, in a waist-length wig, playing a deaf-mute who is raped and framed for murder; and an updated version of its 1966 documentary, The Long Childhood of Jimmy...
...machine-gun speed, R. and G.'s interchanges combine mental verve with spiritual desolation. It is as if the quiz kids of Wittenberg U. found themselves desperate at flunking in life. R.: What's the matter with you today? G.: When? R.: What? G.: Are you deaf? R.: Am I dead? G.: Yes or no? R.: Is there a choice? G.: Is there a God? R.: Foul! No non sequiturs, three-two, one game all. The game at Elsinore is more ominous. Seen through Hamlet's eyes, which is the angle of vision Shakespeare has imposed...
...dramatic program-ranging from Kabuki plays to slapstick to poetry reading-is broad enough to challenge the resources of any normal theatrical troupe. Yet none of the principal actors of the National Theater of the Deaf utters a word, and only one of them can hear. No matter; the pacing and performance are unmistakably professional, and the critical notices are in the rave category. Currently on a six-week tour of 18 Northeastern cities, the company opened at Manhattan's Hunter College Playhouse last week to tumultuous applause...
...theatrical language of the National Theater is the familiar signing of the deaf, abetted by skilled pantomime. To help audiences follow the action, two members of the company with normal hearing speak the lines-sometimes from the sidelines, sometimes onstage-synchronizing their words with the actors' gestures...
Living Proof. Now six months old, the Theater of the Deaf was founded by David Hays of the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Foundation, Psychologist Edna Levine and Administrator Mary Switzer of the Rehabilitation Services Administration, backed by a $331,000 grant from the Federal Government. Although only one of the 14 actors has had any conventional theatrical experience, the company has had directorial help from such top Broadway professionals as Arthur Penn and Joe Layton. Justifiably proud of their mimetic skills, the actors are living proof, on stage at least, that a word in the hand may sometimes...