We didn't really know each other before the play, but now we're friends. It's such an intense relationship between Annie and Helen, they can't be played by people who don't work well together. For the role of Annie, Smith taught herself to fingerspell the alphabet. I think it's great that we're making the play accessible. Andrew Bond, a six-year member of BCT, was taking sign language classes from Damon at New Vista in partial fulfillment of his foreign language requirement for college.
Sign language is so powerful and kinesthetic.
It's our interior world made visible. I called Cam and brought her onboard. Translating the play into ASL proved to be a lot of work. Our four brave interpreters stepped up to the plate. They made the commitment and have stuck with it.