CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD

January 27 - February 11, 1995
By Mark Medoff

Directed by Teresa Findorff-Johnson

After three years in the Peace Corps, James, a young speech therapist, joins the faculty of a school for the deaf, where he is to teach lip-reading. He meets Sarah, a school dropout, totally deaf from birth, and estranged both from the world of hearing and from those who would compromise to enter that world. Fluent in sign language, James tries, with little success, to help Sarah, but gradually the two fall in love and marry. At first their relationship is a happy and glowing one, as the gulf of silence between them seems to be bridged by their desire to understand each other's needs and feelings, but discord soon develops as Sarah becomes militant for the rights of the deaf and rejects any hint that she is being patronized and pitied. In the end the chasm between the worlds of sound and silence seems almost too great to cross . . . but love and compassion hold the hope of reconciliation, and a deeper, fuller understanding of differences that, in the final essence, can unite as well as divide.

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TICKETS
$6 Adult / $5 Senior/Student

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PHOTOS

CAST
Sarah Norman / Kelly Coleman
James Leeds / Mark William Garner
Orin Dennis / Tom Jackson
Franklin / Korene Pearson
Mrs. Norman / Pat Chenard
Lydia / Laura Reed
Edna Klein / Laurie Ehlhardt

PRODUCTION CREW
Director / Teresa Findorff-Johnson
Sign Coach / Cathie Reschke
Set Design / Teresa Findorff-Johnson
Set Construction / Don Jeffris, Gil T. Rodello, Erik Westerholm. Teresa Findorff-Johnson, Cast, Crew
Costumes / Cast
Lighting Design / Teresa Findorff-Johnson
Master Electrician / Yancey DeYoung
Photography / Robin Bachtler Cushman
Poster Artwork / Dan Pegoda
Publicity / Pat Donahoo
Program / Lynn Babcock
Box Office / Virginia O’Keeffe
Technical Director / Gil T. Rodello
House Manager / Richard Hill
Microwave Technology / Erik Westerholm