Tribes by Nina Raine Performed at the Melbourne Theatre Company March 2012 Deafness is a terrifying subject for a stage or a screen production. It blows apart the most fundamental and unquestioned assumption ever made by anyone who has written dialogue: that all characters hear – everything, the first time, and every time. Yes, Tribes did slip up […]
The kindness of the cinema chains
They propose to put captions on 0.03 per cent of cinema screenings for two-and-a-half years. Do they realise what this means? In the late 1920s, sound came to the cinema, and the silent movie era came to an end. Incredible as it sounds today, deaf people in the United States protested. The silent movies’ version […]
This (Interpreted) Life
TUQ Blog 01 I used to avoid parent-teacher evenings at my daughter’s school. They always took place in the gym, a pandemonium of a hundred clashing and echoing voices. I could have asked for the interviews in a private room and taken the chance that maybe I could still follow voices, which inevitably danced just […]
A rare Australian deaf memoir that draws in the reader
Janice Evans Book Review The Art of Being Deaf: A Memoir Donna McDonald Gallaudet University Press, Washington DC. 2014 There is no doubt that Donna McDonald excels as a writer. Her memoir, The Art of Being Deaf, published in 2014 by Gallaudet University Press, is one of the best biographies of deafness I have […]
In the Regency days of the 19th century, on the lawns at the Longbourne estate in England, 5-year-old Lizzie Bennet was prancing about when she tripped and hit her head on the ground. She was quite alright, but the accident left her noticeably deaf. Now a feisty 22-year-old, she gets ready to deal with Mr […]
The little deaf theatre company that did
Forty years ago, a small deaf mime company performed at Melbourne’s Pram Factory. It performed for six nights in August 1975, and again the next year. Then it dropped out of sight. In 1974, the National Theatre of the Deaf from the United States toured Australia. The group that was to become known as Earforce […]
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