CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD by Mark Medoff
Silence may be golden, but one would never dream of saying that to the deaf. Yet Sarah (Phyllis Frelich), the heroine of this play, who was born deaf, believes that silence is a magic realm of treasure in which her mind can richly imagine sounds. She is so stubborn in this belief that she has refused to learn how to lip-read or attempt to speak, although she is fluent in the use of sign language. At 26, she works as a cleaning maid in a speech-therapy dorm, although tests indicate that she is capable...
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