Ted Evans Probes an Insular Deaf Community in Drama 'Retreat': 'I Saw an Opportunity to Explore the Construct of Identity Within the Structure o
Ted Evans' "Retreat" takes place outside society: Its characters, living in a compound called Chilmark, share a deaf identity but refuse to call themselves deaf, declaring that that label was foisted upon them by the hearing. Matt (James Joseph Boyle) has been happy among this group until that classic type, an enigmatic outsider (Anne Zander) […]