Students from around the country will take part in workshops, meet professionals like “CODA” star Daniel Durant, and perform for a live audience.
Daniel Durant, seen here in a scene from the movie "CODA," will be a guest performer at the second annual National Deaf High School Theatre Festival, set for March 10-13 at the Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind campus in Salt Lake City.Michelle Tanner was looking for a way for deaf students in Utah to experience the theater — and when suing the state’s most prestigious theater festival didn’t work, she decided to start her own.
Audiences attending Saturday’s performances will find themselves fully immersed in deaf theater, Tanner said. Interpreters will be on hand for introductions and basic explanations, but not during the performances themselves, she said. It was the classics — and a lack of access to them — that prompted Tanner, associate superintendent of the deaf at the Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind , to launch the high-school festival in the first place.
Tanner pointed out that it’s difficult for deaf students to read captions and pay attention to the visual performance on the stage simultaneously. Also, she said, Shakepearean English is difficult to understand, whether you’re deaf or not.
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