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Article: A CHANCE TO BE HEARD PLAYS ALLOW DEAF KIDS TO ACT, MEET NONHEARING ADULTS.(Entertainment)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- May 14, 1996
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The rehearsal is a disaster.
There are seven acts to be fine-tuned in just three hours, and 90 elementary students are wandering or hanging around the main stage of Seattle Children's Theatre.
Lights blink, arms wave. Actors huddle together center stage. Some deliver lines with their backs to the audience.
Lights malfunction, or don't work at all.
``I believe it's unplugged,'' comes a calm voice over the speakers from the control booth.
The red and yellow lights at stage edge are crucial, because almost all the players are deaf, gathered here for the Deaf Kids Drama Festival.
For them, a yellow light means get ready. ...