Deaf Middle School Students Vie for Another Shot at Center Stage
Students at Maryland School for the Deaf on Old Montgomery Road are busy rehearsing a play they wrote, which they hope will be selected for performance on Baltimore's Center Stage.
Last May, students from Maryland School for the Deaf stole the show at Baltimore’s Center Stage when they performed Understanding, a play they wrote about the implications of being deaf in a hearing world. “The students were asked to perform in front of hundreds of people—the house was packed—and there wasn’t a dry eye in the place when they were done,” recalled Susan Maginnis, a teacher who served as the manager and interpreter for the troupe of 18 middle school students. Their play was one of more than 350 submitted by Maryland schools vying to be among the half-dozen that would be performed by professional actors at Center Stage as part of the theater’s annual Young Playwrights Festival. Not only was Understanding selected, but the …
