Sign language has played a significant role in the plots of both The Story of B and After Dachau. Is there any special reason for this that you’d care to reveal?

Signing brought Shirin onto the stage with Charles Atterley, where I wanted her (and gave them a secret language), and Gloria’s awakening as Mallory would’ve had no impact if she’d been used to speaking. There may be deeper reasons for it than this, but I’m unaware of them (so you’ll have to wait for some psychobiographer to dig them out).

ID: 528
posted: 09 Dec 2001
updated: 09 Dec 2001