April 28 - May 15 (mainstage)
Winner of the Tony Award, the Outer Critics Circle
Award and the Drama Desk Award as best play of the season.
Children of a Lesser God follows James, a young speech therapist,
who joins the faculty of a school for the deaf. He meets Sarah, a dropout,
totally deaf from birth, and estranged both from the world of hearing and from
those who would concede 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 one, as the gap of silence
between them seems to be bridged by their desire to understand each other's
needs and feelings. Conflict 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
understanding. Children of a Lesser God is a
strong modern dramatic piece of theatre.
Directed by Mark Mills
THE CAST
James Leeds - Jeremy Motely
Sarah Norman - Rebecca Alfert
