Posts Tagged protest
Déjà vu!!! Hearing Actor in Deaf Blind Role
October 29, 2009, 8:46 am Advocacy Group Opposes ‘Miracle Worker’ Casting Choice By Patrick Healy Abigail Breslin has been cast to play Helen Keller in a coming Broadway revival of “The Miracle Worker.” Two weeks after a group of deaf actors protested the choice of a hearing actor for a deaf role in an upcoming [...]
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Deaf Actors Protest in NYC
The New York Times October 14, 2009 Hearing Man in Deaf Role Stirs Protests in New York By PATRICK HEALY When the playwright Rebecca Gilman began adapting the Carson McCullers novel “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter” for the stage several years ago, she made a bold and controversial artistic leap: opening and ending the [...]
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