It is not just Love's Labour's Lost we have been preparing for but we have four other productions this year plus next year's schedule to think about. Miraculously our staff have not yet had a nervous breakdown. This week our attention is focused on Gold Dust which will be shown at Soho Theatre from Wednesday to Saturday. It's a funny and moving play that has been written by Andrew Muir (who is also the Assistant Director of Love's Labour's Lost).
The style of the play is quite different to what will be seen in Love's Labour's Lost (LLL). Whilst LLL is solely in British Sign Language (BSL), most of our plays have mix of spoken English and BSL and thus ensuring that everyone can access them whether deaf or hearing. Gold Dust is based on a true story and explores the relationship between a deaf father and his hearing son. The father uses sign language throughout the play whilst his son uses speech. The script is clever in that the audience can follow the story regardless of whether they rely on BSL or spoken English to communicate, yet the dialogue between the two characters feels very natural.
Jim Fish (left) and Ilan Dwek (right) in Gold Dust
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