{"id":1,"date":"2017-04-06T04:01:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T04:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/houndingproductions.org\/everyone\/?p=1"},"modified":"2017-04-06T14:02:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T14:02:31","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/houndingproductions.org\/everyone\/1\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Been a Long Time Coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Completing this film has taken years. \u00a0Originally, the film was a documentary of Kent State University at Trumbull’s theatre production of Willy Conley’s For Every Man, Woman, and Child\u2014a modern morality play inspired by EVERYMAN<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0The play was co-produced by Daniel-Raymond Nadon (Director), Nancy M. Resh (Sign Master), and Carol L. Robinson (Dramaturg) in October 2009. \u00a0It\u00a0was an exciting venture between both campus and community, as well as between hearing and Deaf worlds: accessible to both Deaf and hearing audiences through a mixture of ASL, spoken English, gesture and mime. The play is a contemporary written English adaptation of the medieval (late Middle English) British medieval morality play, Everyman<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0The play was performed by students and members of the surrounding community\u2014some Deaf, some deaf, some hard-of-hearing, some hearing. \u00a0Regardless of hearing ability, some used\u00a0American Sign Language as their primary language while others preferred spoken English. \u00a0Not only was the play performed at Kent Trumbull Theatre, but it was also transported (props and over twenty members of cast and crew) to Siena College (near Albany, New York) for the Annual International Conference on Medievalism. \u00a0After the show closed, all three producers (Daniel-Raymond, Carol, and Nancy) worked to compose and publish articles and book chapters that drew from this experience. \u00a0Additionally Carol and\u00a0Nancy began\u00a0working on the film together. \u00a0Then, Nancy unexpectedly passed away (November, 2010). \u00a0 Daniel-Raymond and Carol had to re-group to finish work on presentations and articles, and Carol had to set out to finish the film alone. \u00a0The film was initially completed in 2012, after a peer-review at the University Film and Video Association Conference in 2011.<\/p>\n

However, Carol\u00a0was still unhappy with it, and then, eventually, she\u00a0got the idea of combining this documentary with the next documentary, scheduled to be about the next Kent Trumbull Theatre production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before she died, Nancy had been discussing the possibility of Iosif Schneiderman directing this play, which he co-adapted with Aaron Weir and William Morgan. \u00a0Carol and Daniel-Raymond decided to honor Nancy’s wish, and worked with Gary Ciuba and Verne Taylor, Jr. to fund and produce this play in 2013. \u00a0Once again, it was a venture between campus and community, between Deaf and hearing cultures. \u00a0However, this time, the play involved several children. \u00a0The children seemed to thoroughly enjoy the production experience, but this was not so among the adults. \u00a0While the children eagerly learned their lines \u2014 some in spoken English, others in American Sign Language\u2014\u00a0and gleefully performed in their long beards, the adults were making accusations of audism<\/a> and sexism<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0a\u00a0bitter conflict \u00a0brewed among the adults to the point at which the show was almost cancelled. \u00a0But, the adults knew that the show must go on, and (like the children actors) the audience was blissfully unaware of the backstage battles.<\/p>\n

Carol also worked with several former cast members of the Everyman<\/em> play adaptation production (who also happened to be current and former students) to conduct interviews that will be used both in the film and as supplements for educational purposes. \u00a0This included a road-trip to Gallaudet University. \u00a0This project, in other words, has grown to become so much more than just a film about a play production!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Completing this film has taken years. \u00a0Originally, the film was a documentary of Kent State University at Trumbull’s theatre production of Willy Conley’s For Every Man, Woman, and Child\u2014a modern morality play inspired by EVERYMAN. \u00a0The play was co-produced by … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/houndingproductions.org\/everyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/houndingproductions.org\/everyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/houndingproductions.org\/everyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/houndingproductions.org\/everyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/houndingproductions.org\/everyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/houndingproductions.org\/everyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/houndingproductions.org\/everyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/houndingproductions.org\/everyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/houndingproductions.org\/everyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/houndingproductions.org\/everyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}