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Children of a Lesser God is a play by Mark Medoff, focusing on the conflicted professional and romantic relationship between Sarah Norman, a deaf student, and her former teacher, James Leeds. It premiered at the Mark Taper Forum in 1979, was produced on Broadway in 1980 and in the West End in 1981.
- Mark Howard Medoff
- 1981
Children of a Lesser God. Mark Medoff. Author bio (s) $14.00. Qty: Full Length, Drama. 3 men, 4 women. Total Cast: 7, Flexible Set. ISBN-13: 978-0-8222-0203-5. Apply for Rights. MIN. PERFORMANCE FEE: $130 per performance. Winner of the 1980 Tony Award® for Best Play.
First produced in 1979, Children of a Lesser God was written specifically for deaf actress Phyllis Frelich, and based in part on her real-life relationship with her husband. In the story, an idealistic teacher at a State School for the Deaf falls in love with a woman who has been deaf since birth.
Jul 7, 2021 · 87 pages : 20 cm. After three years in the Peace Corps, James, a young speech therapist, joins the faculty of a school for the deaf, where he is to teach lip-reading.
Plot Summary. In 1980, the playwright Mark Medoff’s play “Children of a Lesser God” debuted on Broadway to wide critical acclaim, and went on to win the Tony Award for Best Play that year.
Apr 11, 2018 · The first Broadway revival of “Children of a Lesser God,” the award-winning, boundary-breaking 1980 play by Mark Medoff about the romance and eventual marriage between a hearing teacher at a school for the deaf and a deaf graduate, is the only show on Broadway whose creative team includes a “director of artistic sign language.”
May 27, 2018 · Children of a Lesser God has arrived on Broadway in a breathtaking new production starring Joshua Jackson (The Affair, Fringe), Lauren Ridloff (Wonderstruck), and Anthony Edwards (ER).
