{"id":32979,"date":"2016-02-24T17:09:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T23:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=32979"},"modified":"2016-02-24T17:09:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T23:09:46","slug":"the-playhouse-san-antonio-reaches-out-to-deaf-audiences-with-signed-performances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2016\/02\/24\/the-playhouse-san-antonio-reaches-out-to-deaf-audiences-with-signed-performances\/","title":{"rendered":"The Playhouse San Antonio reaches out to deaf audiences with signed performances"},"content":{"rendered":"

REACHING A NEW AUDIENCE<\/p>\n

Sign language bringing deaf community to The Playhouse<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Deborah Martin STAFF WRITER<\/p>\n

Robert Cardoza Jr. and Claudia Flores practice signing before the start of \u201cThe Christmas Carol\u201d at The Playhouse. Slow shutter speed emphasizes movement used in American Sign Language.<\/p>\n

Robert Cardoza and Karen Elliot weren\u2019t cast in The Playhouse San Antonio staging of \u201cJesus Christ Superstar,\u201d but they will play an important role in the show on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Thanks to a partnership between the theater and San Antonio College, Cardoza and Elliot will be stationed in their own spotlight at stage left that evening, offering American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation for hearing impaired audience members.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re really learning that hands-on theater interpretation, which a lot of people don\u2019t ever get to experience,\u201d said Lauri Metcalf, chairwoman of the American Sign Language and Interpreter training program at SAC.<\/p>\n

This is the second time in recent memory that the Playhouse has included a signed performance in a show\u2019s run. The first was \u201cA Christmas Carol\u201d in December. The plan is to have one signed performance for each of the shows that play in the Russell Hill Rogers space upstairs.<\/p>\n

For each performance, an intern from the SAC program is paired with a certified instructor. They attend rehearsals and also pore over the script together, figuring out how to translate what\u2019s happening on the stage into sign language. They also attended a performance to make sure they know what\u2019s going on behind them while they\u2019re signing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat sign language is, is a concept of what\u2019s being said,\u201d Cardoza said. \u201cSo we have to take those lines and make them into a concept.\u201d<\/p>\n

That can be tricky. One song in \u201cSuperstar\u201d is built around the blood money that Judas is offered in exchange for his betrayal of Jesus.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou hear \u2018blood money\u2019 and you know that\u2019s money that\u2019s given to somebody for either killing somebody or turning somebody in,\u201d Cardoza said. \u201cIn ASL, if you sign \u2018blood money,\u2019 that doesn\u2019t make sense. So we have to go with the concept of what that means.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later in the show, characters chant \u201cCrucify him! Crucify him!\u201d Cardoza and Elliot have worked to come up with a sequence that captures the deeper meaning of the scene.<\/p>\n

Hearing people, Cardoza said, \u201ccan hear the intonation of the singers, how they\u2019re singing and the intensity of it. But if we\u2019re just signing \u2018crucify him!\u2019 the deaf person is going to see \u2018a cross, a cross, a cross.\u2019 We have to expand on that for it to make sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cardoza is a musical theater buff who knew the score inside and out going into the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s one of my favorite shows,\u201d he said. \u201cBut even at that, I had to analyze it. I could sing the whole score, but when you sit down and analyze the lyrics, there\u2019s some pretty deep stuff in there. It takes a lot of work to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Students in SAC\u2019s ASL program routinely interpret performances by the school\u2019s theater program, so those who come to work on Playhouse shows have a sense of what to expect. That was the case for Claudia Flores, the student who worked beside Cardoza on \u201cA Christmas Carol.\u201d But the situation at The Playhouse was more intense.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had deaf (people) at The Playhouse (performance), so it was more of a real deal there,\u201d said Flores, who is slated to graduate in May. \u201cOur interpretation was crucial because of our deaf clients that were there. We got rave reviews from them. They were very grateful that we provided that service for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cardoza and Flores hope more theaters will begin offering signed shows.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s baby steps, and this is a good one,\u201d Flores said. \u201cThis is a good door to open.\u201d dlmartin@express-news.net Twitter: @DeborahMartinEN<\/p>\n

SOURCE:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/entertainment\/music-stage\/article\/The-Playhouse-San-Antonio-reaches-out-to-deaf-6847752.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

REACHING A NEW AUDIENCE Sign language bringing deaf community to The Playhouse By Deborah Martin STAFF WRITER Robert Cardoza Jr. and Claudia Flores practice signing before the start of \u201cThe Christmas Carol\u201d at The Playhouse. Slow shutter speed emphasizes movement…<\/p>\n

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