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 […]
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 […]