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Daytona Beach News-Journal Online -- News
When Oliver Twist begs for more soup, the deaf should feel his whine in the sign language of interpreters.
The Flagler Playhouse has hired theatrical sign language interpreters for its performance of "Oliver" on Thursday at Matanzas High School.
Stage mom Cayti Recker thought it was only fair that her boyfriend Manny Moscoso, who is deaf, enjoy her 11-year-old daughter Abigail's star performance as Oliver.
"He drove her every night to practice," said Recker, who works as a sign language interpreter for the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in St. Augustine.
Theatrical interpreters differ in style from sign language interpreters, who work in classrooms or courtrooms. Like actors wanting to deliver their lines with the right inflection, theatrical interpreters want to convey the drama of the story.
"There are ways we show this with our body language," said Emma Carbonell, one of the two interpreters for Thursday night's performance. "Sometimes it is common to see deaf humor come out in moments where there is no 'hearing humor' and vice versa.
"Because language is such a beautiful thing to play with, often times these things occur," she said.
Carbonell learned the techniques of Broadway interpreters at the Julliard School in New York. Her interpreting partner, Rosanne Trapani, grew up the child of parents who are deaf and has 25 years of experience as an interpreter.
Both work for Interpretek, a national interpreter's agency that has an office in Orlando. Because Oliver is a two-hour musical, the partners will split up the roles according to protagonist and antagonist. If there are two protagonists on stage, "we would split the character by sex, one of us male, one of us female," Carbonell said.
While the Flagler Playhouse will do four shows, only Thursday night's performance will feature the interpreters, who will be onstage but off to the side of the actors.
According to Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services of Volusia and Flagler counties, there are about 2,000 deaf and 70,000 hard-of-hearing residents in the area. Thursday's performance will be a rare entertainment opportunity for them, Recker said.
"People don't realize how many deaf people there are," she said.
jim.haug@news-jrnl.com
If You Go
WHAT: The Flagler Playhouse presentation of "Oliver," a musical based on the novel "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens.
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m. on Sunday
WHERE: Matanzas High School, 3535 Old Kings Road N., Palm Coast
COST: $18 adults, $10 children
When Oliver Twist begs for more soup, the deaf should feel his whine in the sign language of interpreters.
The Flagler Playhouse has hired theatrical sign language interpreters for its performance of "Oliver" on Thursday at Matanzas High School.
Stage mom Cayti Recker thought it was only fair that her boyfriend Manny Moscoso, who is deaf, enjoy her 11-year-old daughter Abigail's star performance as Oliver.
"He drove her every night to practice," said Recker, who works as a sign language interpreter for the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in St. Augustine.
Theatrical interpreters differ in style from sign language interpreters, who work in classrooms or courtrooms. Like actors wanting to deliver their lines with the right inflection, theatrical interpreters want to convey the drama of the story.
"There are ways we show this with our body language," said Emma Carbonell, one of the two interpreters for Thursday night's performance. "Sometimes it is common to see deaf humor come out in moments where there is no 'hearing humor' and vice versa.
"Because language is such a beautiful thing to play with, often times these things occur," she said.
Carbonell learned the techniques of Broadway interpreters at the Julliard School in New York. Her interpreting partner, Rosanne Trapani, grew up the child of parents who are deaf and has 25 years of experience as an interpreter.
Both work for Interpretek, a national interpreter's agency that has an office in Orlando. Because Oliver is a two-hour musical, the partners will split up the roles according to protagonist and antagonist. If there are two protagonists on stage, "we would split the character by sex, one of us male, one of us female," Carbonell said.
While the Flagler Playhouse will do four shows, only Thursday night's performance will feature the interpreters, who will be onstage but off to the side of the actors.
According to Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services of Volusia and Flagler counties, there are about 2,000 deaf and 70,000 hard-of-hearing residents in the area. Thursday's performance will be a rare entertainment opportunity for them, Recker said.
"People don't realize how many deaf people there are," she said.
jim.haug@news-jrnl.com
If You Go
WHAT: The Flagler Playhouse presentation of "Oliver," a musical based on the novel "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens.
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m. on Sunday
WHERE: Matanzas High School, 3535 Old Kings Road N., Palm Coast
COST: $18 adults, $10 children