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'Visible Language' captures the historic dispute in D.C. over how to teach the deaf by Celia Wren

Sometimes, a historical showdown begets memorable theater " think of the political struggles recalled in Shakespeare's history plays, or the courtroom clash that inspired "Inherit the Wind." Now a new work is joining the canon of dramatized historical conflict. "Visible Language," a world premiere musical in American Sign Language and English, evokes a famous 1890s blowup between Edward Miner Gallaudet and Alexander …

SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:32PM on October 23, 2014

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