Sweet Nothing in My Ear
By Stephen Sachs.
Product Code: SD8000
Full-length Play
Drama
Cast size: 5m., 5w. (includes 1 boy.)
Limited Streaming Rights Available
Rights and availability
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Synopsis
Dan and Laura are an attractive young couple happily married for nine years. He is hearing; she is deaf. Dan speaks and uses sign language to communicate with Laura and their 6-year-old deaf son, Adam. His family's deafness has never been an issue for Dan—until a doctor says that Adam should have a cochlear implant—a tiny computer device that would be surgically inserted into his skull to enable the child to hear. A technological miracle? Not to Laura, who sees the device as a threat to deaf culture. In her eyes, the most "natural" thing for Adam is for her boy to remain deaf. To her, deafness is an honor, not a handicap—like being "a flower of a different color." But Dan becomes convinced that it's in Adam's "best interest" to become a "normal" child. The battle to help his deaf son become a hearing boy launches Dan on an emotional journey of self-discovery that exposes hidden prejudices and threatens to shatter his family. "Sweet Nothing in My Ear" was a finalst for the 1998 PEN West Literary Award for Drama.
Notes
Limited Streaming Rights Available
Details
- Status In stock
- Type of Show Full-length Play
- Product Code SD8000
- Minimum Cast Size 11
- Pages of Dialogue 66
- Min. Royalty Rate $90.00/perf
- Approx. Run Time 90 min
- Staging Area staging.
Categories
- Target Audience High School | College and Adult
- Performing Group High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre
- Genre Drama
- ISBN(13) 9780871299178
Customer Reviews
Hints, Tips, and Tricks
Follow Stephen Sach's staging notes to create something special. We produced this show as minimally as possible: 8 rehearsal cubes, a black table, a handful of props, and a projector screen showing Adam's drawings. The hardest part of this play is obviously the use of ASL. If you plan on performing this play, know that the only script you get is in English.
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Tracey Strother, Logos Preparatory Academy, Sugar Land, Texas