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NextStop offers chilling, clever take on 'Richard III,' featuring deaf and hearing actors by Celia Wren

One of the most powerful moments in NextStop Theatre Company's "Richard III" contains no audible words. It's near the end of the play; at Richard's behest, the sinister ruffian Tyrell has murdered the princes in the tower. When monarch and killer meet for a debriefing, they talk in American Sign Language. Bathed in blue light, the sequence is chilling, and not only because of the cold-bloodedness of the talk (even if…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:30PM on February 6, 2014

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