A SILENT PLAY.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 949, 14 May 1908, Page 18

A SILENT PLAY.

To demonstrate their remarkable facility of communication, the deaf and dumb people in London arranged an entertainment on a recent evening at the St. Saviour’s Social Club, Oxford street. A one-act play was staged in which actors, scene shifters and stage managers were all deaf and dumb—as were the audience who witnessed the performance- The scene was an extraordinary one (says the “Daily Mail). Not a sound broke the stillness of the hall during the whole time the play wag on, both action and dialogue being accomplished in silence. The actors, with mobile faces, gesticulated quaintly under the limelight, reeling off their parts upon fingers which moved with a lightning-like rapidity.