{"id":2948,"date":"2023-10-04T18:45:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T15:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2023-12-05T00:20:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T22:20:18","slug":"third-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/third-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First person \u2013 me, deaf. Second person \u2013 you, hearing. Third person \u2013 interpreter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I rely on her. You rely on her. She relies on both of us. One moment she is you. The next moment she is me. Who is she?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is she being accurate? Do the movements of her hands convey the nuances of your language, your tone of voice, the pauses between the words? Does she manage to transform the rich expressiveness of sign language into speech?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> She is my ear, my voice. If only I could do without her!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She calls and speaks for me in a government office. She interprets for me the instructions and words of encouragement from the midwife during childbirth. She interprets for me the Kaddish prayer my brother is saying for our father.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The psychologist\u2019s questions, she signs to me. Is this therapy session a dyad or a triad? The psychologist speaks to her, explaining \u201cwhat HE needs to be doing\u201d. \u201cHE\u201d is me. Now, the third person is me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/889050186?h=f43c3a312d&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Atay Citron <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is an emeritus professor of theatre, and former chair of the Theatre Department at the University of Haifa, where he founded the pioneering academic training program for medical clowns in 2006. His directing career includes the outdoor performance <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">En Zo Ben Zo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the Israel Festival (first prize in the street theatre competition), its sequel, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yanti Parazi<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the Jerusalem Khan Theatre, and several devised pieces that were performed in Israel, Canada, the USA, and France. His research interests include shamanism, ritual clowning, medical clowning, and the history of avant-garde performance. He is co-editor of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Performance Studies in Motion<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Bloomsbury, 2014), and was artistic director of the Bat-Yam International Street Theatre Festival, the Acco Festival of Alternative Theatre, and the School of Visual Theatre, Jerusalem. In 2004, he was awarded the Rosenblum Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts. In 2014, he formed the Ebisu Sign Language Theatre Laboratory as part of the Grammar of the Body research project led by Professor Wendy Sandler at the University of Haifa, and funded by the European Research Council. Today, Ebisu is an independent theatre company that devises performances combining physical theatre with sign language, for deaf and hearing spectators alike.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First person \u2013 me, deaf. Second person \u2013 you, hearing. Third person \u2013 interpreter. I rely on her. You rely on her. She relies on both of us. One moment she is you. The next moment she is me. Who is she?\u00a0 Is she being accurate? Do the movements of her hands convey the nuances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[30,27,20,5,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exposure.dramaisrael.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}