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Ebisu Sign Language Theatre Presents THIRD PERSON
A piece about the deaf, the hearing, and the in-betweens
A collaborative creation by the actors:
Shoval Ben-Ze’ev, Yaroslav Bernatsky, Lee Dan, Ella Okhotin, Nurit Shalom
+ Director Atay Citron + Dramaturge Lee Dan

Stage designer: Shay Id Alony
Costume designer: Helen Budniatsky
Lighting designer: Yair Vardi
Video: Yonathan Zur
Stage manager: Gal Belsitzman

Third Person (2023), was forged from the personal reflections of the actors together with the director and also from interviews with interpreters and with deaf consumers of interpreting services. This production is the third Ebisu showing. Ebisu began in 2014 as part of the “Grammar of the Body” research project led by Professor Wendy Sandler, Director of the Sign Language Research Laboratory at University of Haifa. It consisted of eight deaf actors, one hearing actress, and a hearing director, Professor Atay Citron, of the Department of theater at the University of Haifa. The project was supported by a European Research Council grant.