Like many of the shows developed in that series, it's graduated to the main stage, opening the company's 44th season and serving as prologue to this year's festival, which follows it into the Lucie Stern Theatre in August. Intrepid reporter Haylee (Fitzpatrick) gets her interview with the hot experimental theater and opera director Jordan (Blue) - a deaf artist as notorious for not suffering fools gladly as for his creativity - by barging in on one of his rehearsals. Layered atop the intricacies of navigating a relationship between busy professionals are language and even cultural barriers between his world and hers, as well as the frustrating inconveniences and obtuseness deaf people encounter every day. Cassidy Brown and Mia Tagano depict everyone from brusque cops, clueless and empathetic friends, strangers and colleagues to an elderly Jewish couple with dazzling dexterity and astonishingly quick changes of Tanya Finkelstein's character-perfect costumes. The depth of the central romance is beautifully depicted in the ways Blue and Fitzpatrick not only delight in each other but pay attention to the other's moods, and the unobtrusive details of Haylee's growing command of ASL.
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