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'An Old Road to The Inland Sea'

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By David Scott Kastan, Heinrich Wiemann
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EXPIRES: COMPANY DETAILS Crispin Larangeira, writer-dir. PROJECT DESCRIPTION Casting "An Old Road to The Inland Sea," a new play. Production states: "I'd like to hear it privately. If it is ready for a reading, I'd like to do so. If it is already beyond a reading, I'd want to pursue a presentational space for the production to be reviewed in hopes of attracting a paying audience." ACTORS & PERFORMERS Be one of the first to apply! Chisako / Misako Lead. Female.
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Shakespeare in Sign

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By Amy Lifson Verified, David Kipen, David Scott Kastan, Katherine Eastland
In the first, a famous Deaf actor named Howard Palmer is dressed in period costume and expresses in his hands and body a translation that closely follows Shakespeare’s original text: “heart with strings of steel, / Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe.” It is not an exact translation—ASL has its own grammar rules. So the ASL actor signs, “My heart hard,” for example, because there is no verb “to be” in ASL. How, then, does an ASL actor perform the famous “To be, or not to be” speech?
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Red state, blue state: How colours took sides in politics

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By David Scott Kastan
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When Americans hear some pundits projecting a “blue wave,” they understand that this is a prediction of a big Democratic victory. Blue of course symbolises the Democratic party, while red represents the GOP. This might seem like a long-standing tradition, but it isn’t. While writing my book “On Colour,” I was surprised to discover that this is a recent convention, not some practice with roots dating back to the birth of the two-party system.
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