It’s not that there’s 0 deaf people who enjoy it. But it isn’t all that popular I will admit. Who it is actually more popular with in my expierience (in a bumfuck nowhere city) is the language learners, interpreting students and interpreters themselves. Last one I went to had 5x-10x as many of them as actual Deaf people. It is a great opportunity to see some really good interpreting. Rehearsed stuff that has been thought about and made more artful, rather than the usual immediate live style, where the best they’ve done is a bit of Wikipedia research the night prior on the broad topic they were given.
And in a roundabout way that then serves the deaf community indirectly. You’ve got a more engaged cohort of future interpreters seeing something at the peak of their field, in optimal conditions, it’s the goal of what to aspire to in many ways.
But yes, the theatre lefties don’t know or care about any of that, it’s more about the ‘inclusion’ there absolutely.
It’s not that there’s 0 deaf people who enjoy it. But it isn’t all that popular I will admit. Who it is actually more popular with in my expierience (in a bumfuck nowhere city) is the language learners, interpreting students and interpreters themselves. Last one I went to had 5x-10x as many of them as actual Deaf people. It is a great opportunity to see some really good interpreting. Rehearsed stuff that has been thought about and made more artful, rather than the usual immediate live style, where the best they’ve done is a bit of Wikipedia research the night prior on the broad topic they were given.
And in a roundabout way that then serves the deaf community indirectly. You’ve got a more engaged cohort of future interpreters seeing something at the peak of their field, in optimal conditions, it’s the goal of what to aspire to in many ways.
But yes, the theatre lefties don’t know or care about any of that, it’s more about the ‘inclusion’ there absolutely.