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The Frederick News-Post Online - Frederick County Maryland Daily Newspaper
Two spinster sisters have poisoned a dozen lonely men and are working on lucky number 13.
Will they succeed?
The answer to this question can be answered at the black comedy play "Arsenic and Old Lace," the spring production from the Maryland School for the Deaf performing arts club.
"Our school thought it would be a challenging play," director Rita Corey said through an interpreter. "All of us had to put a lot of time into the play. ... We try to have a variety of different plays to make it appealing to the hearing and the deaf."
Besides translating the script into sign language and adding seven interpreters for the hearing, parts of the script had to be changed to make it more plausible for the deaf community.
One character talks on the phone a lot but now she converses through messenger, Corey said. A toy pulley was created to alert residents when someone was at the door.
"We don't hear knocks at the door," she said.
Corey wanted a play that would appeal to the eyes and the ears. To help with the visual aspect, she recruited Miroslaw Nowalski to design and make the sets.
For the past 21 years, Nowalski has been a stagehand for "Saturday Night Live." He builds and paints the sets for the show each week.
Though Nowalski lives in New York, his family is in Frederick. His wife, Jane, works at the school and he has a daughter enrolled there. His oldest daughter graduated from the school.
Nowalski, through an interpreter, said that while it's tough to be separated from his family, he wants his daughters to get the best education they can and that's at the Maryland School for the Deaf.
He came back to Frederick on the weekends to see his family and work on the sets for about four weekends.
"We are very, very lucky to be able to have him working with us," Corey said. "It's a beautiful set. It (gives) a feeling of being home."
This is the first set Nowalski has worked on for the school.
"If they want me (for another play), I'd be more than happy to help," he said.
Two spinster sisters have poisoned a dozen lonely men and are working on lucky number 13.
Will they succeed?
The answer to this question can be answered at the black comedy play "Arsenic and Old Lace," the spring production from the Maryland School for the Deaf performing arts club.
"Our school thought it would be a challenging play," director Rita Corey said through an interpreter. "All of us had to put a lot of time into the play. ... We try to have a variety of different plays to make it appealing to the hearing and the deaf."
Besides translating the script into sign language and adding seven interpreters for the hearing, parts of the script had to be changed to make it more plausible for the deaf community.
One character talks on the phone a lot but now she converses through messenger, Corey said. A toy pulley was created to alert residents when someone was at the door.
"We don't hear knocks at the door," she said.
Corey wanted a play that would appeal to the eyes and the ears. To help with the visual aspect, she recruited Miroslaw Nowalski to design and make the sets.
For the past 21 years, Nowalski has been a stagehand for "Saturday Night Live." He builds and paints the sets for the show each week.
Though Nowalski lives in New York, his family is in Frederick. His wife, Jane, works at the school and he has a daughter enrolled there. His oldest daughter graduated from the school.
Nowalski, through an interpreter, said that while it's tough to be separated from his family, he wants his daughters to get the best education they can and that's at the Maryland School for the Deaf.
He came back to Frederick on the weekends to see his family and work on the sets for about four weekends.
"We are very, very lucky to be able to have him working with us," Corey said. "It's a beautiful set. It (gives) a feeling of being home."
This is the first set Nowalski has worked on for the school.
"If they want me (for another play), I'd be more than happy to help," he said.