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Compelling theatre on a tricky subject

September 28, 2015 by Michael Uniacke Leave a Comment

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 […]

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A rare Australian deaf memoir that draws in the reader

August 31, 2015 by Michael Uniacke Leave a Comment

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 […]

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See the barrackers vomiting

  MICHAEL UNIACKE recalls the time when the victory song of the Australian Rules football team, Collingwood, collided with Australian Sign … Read On...

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