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From: The Independent Weekly
Date: 20030521
Author:Anonymous

RLT's Secret Garden leaves beauty - and questions - for young and older artists

The Secret Garden - Pamela Sterling's stage play adaptation of the beloved book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, not the Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman musical - is the third children's theater production in the last four years at Raleigh Little Theater to actively incorporate deaf actors on stage. As in earlier productions of Mother Hicks and a particularly memorable Jungalbook in 2000, a combination of deaf and hearing actors signed the dialogue in American Sign Language while other actors simultaneously spoke the ...

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