What moves across the stage is not sound but dynamic gestures, expressions, and unique breathing. The space left by silence is filled by another sense crafted by sign language, a "visual language" to ...
This article is featured in the 2026 Winter Carnival Issue. On Wednesday, “The World is Not Silent” — a three-person, trilingual play incorporating English, Vietnamese and both American and Vietnamese ...
A man and his father attempt to communicate in sign language in The World is Not Silent at Alley Theatre. Credit: Photo by Lynn Lane Don X. Nguyen was three years old when his family fled Saigon ...
Every Friday, Davana Jackson, a teacher at Berkeley’s Center for Early Intervention on Deafness (CEID), which helps deaf or hard-of-hearing kids from ages 0 to 5 overcome the barriers that deafness ...