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A Toronto theatre is moving an adaption of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's whimsical tale The Little Prince with a script written particularly for the deaf community, and performed wholly by a deaf cast.
The amusement combines vertical dancing with visual vernacular, an creation signifier with mime and ASL
Britnei Bilhete · CBC News
· Posted: Apr 14, 2025 5:02 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago
'The Little Prince' reimagined successful deaf-led carnal theatre adaptation
A Toronto theatre is moving an adaption of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's whimsical tale The Little Prince with a script written particularly for the deaf community, and performed wholly by a deaf cast.
The Little Prince: A Physical Theatre Adaptation astatine the Theatre Passe Muraille was created and written by Landon Krentz, a deaf creator who stars arsenic the play's titular character.
"This task is precise special. It's precise peculiar to my heart," helium told CBC Toronto. "It's astir however we look for outer solutions. We question these things, but sometimes we person to look inward."
The amusement combines vertical dancing connected roles and harnesses with projection exertion and ocular vernacular, an creation signifier that combines question mime and American Sign Lanuage (ASL).
The amusement runs April 19. Tickets are priced connected a sliding scale.
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