What: "WHY and HOW is a multi-sensory experience for hearing and d/Deaf audiences that is performed entirely in American Sign Language. Competing voices struggle to construct meaning inside a Deaf Brain, resulting in an absurdist musical enhanced by projected captions, sound, and dynamic lighting elements. "
The show is performed entirely in ASL with projected captions. Our cast is 6 Deaf/HoH (including Jake Merz) and 2 hearing people, and our production team consists of MoMo as writer (Deaf), me as director (hearing), Justin Coleman as DASL (Deaf), Annie Wiegand as LD (Deaf), Joellen Sweeney as composer (hearing), and Dani Camarena Chavez as assistant director (Deaf), with hearing SM and TD folks. Light and sound elements will enhance the experience for different audience members in different ways.
Where: The Judy, 1000 SW Broadway T-100, Portland, OR 97205
Date/Time: Sunday, August 25 at 7 pm
FREE admission
Come and enjoy the performance by Momo!
ID: The top row is green with black letters: "Many Hats Collaboration." Underneath, in a thin black row, in white letters, is "The Hatchery." Under the black row, with an orange background, there is a graphic of a silhouette of a head split in half, with a blue brain hanging on a metal hook within the split between the silhouette. A white ladder rests on the back part of the head, a person on top of the ladder reaching out to the brain, and another person holding up the neck of the back part of the head. A third person walks toward and looks up at the brain from the front of the head. Under graphics, with a green background and in black letters, "WHY and HOW are not in the picture."