Dignity

This acclaimed collaboration returns to its enduring engagement with the work of deaf playwright Teresa Deevy, reimagining one of her most celebrated radio plays in the centenary year of Radio Éireann. “Leave your mind free to follow my words.” In Deevy’s 1939 radio play, listeners are invited into an unseen world. In Dignity, audiences are invited into another invisible realm, following bodies, movement and sign as they reveal what happens beyond the reach of sound. Like Deevy, we have learned to listen differently. Through Irish Sign Language, we watch, sign and resist, opening a visual world that deepens our connection to her work and its transformation into a rich choreographic language. Performed in Irish Sign Language, Dignity brings together professional and community artists to celebrate the expressive and choreographic power of sign.