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Mexico City, Mexico.(A Sampler from the World Stage)(theater company Sena y Verbo)

American Theatre, March, 2005 by Estvanik, Nicole

PAAH!: This unusual word signifies the sound one's lips make when indicating speed or intensity in Mexican Sign Language. Under that title, Sena y Verbo, a theatre company devoted to the issues of Mexico's deaf community, presents a trio of original plays at the Centro Cultural Universario of UNAM, the national university.

The three shows are performed by an ensemble of hearing and deaf actors and include Palabras necias (Stubborn Words), by Flavio Gonzalez Mello, in which students at a school for the deaf face off with an insensitive and ambitious politician. El infante (The Child), by David Olguin, is a farce about a hearing doctor cured of his intolerance toward signing by a bicycle accident that brings on hallucinations of an entirely deaf world. And Otra...

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