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A Unique Performance Opportunity for “Miracle Worker”

During an afternoon matinee performance of the “Miracle Worker” at Bethany Lutheran College’s Ylvisaker Fine Arts Center Theater, a unique cultural opportunity was made available. In the audience for the Miracle Worker, a play about Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan, were students from the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf and elementary and high school students from south-central Minnesota enrolled in American Sign Language (ASL) classes.

The matinee performance opportunity with signing was the brainchild of Bethany alumna, Crista Browne-Krosch, who is an ASL instructor for Project Socrates, a program of South Central Service Cooperative, in North Mankato. Crista contacted the Bethany Theatre Department about the idea, and then helped to coordinate the performance with Bethany, who provided two interpreters for the deaf students in attendance. The production was warmly received by the matinee attendees as well as the general public during six sold-out performances.

 

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