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Presents Square-Eye Online Festival | 3-6 December 2020 | Watch on Facebook LIVE & ZOOM
Category: Theatre
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The Deaf voice leads the story in Rinkoo Barpaga’s script for Bubble & Butch. For a week of R&D at Derby Theatre rehearsal studios Stephen Collins plays Bubble. Rinkoo Barpaga wanted to give acting opportunities to Deaf actors based in West Midlands. Troy was played by Leigh Blake, and lives in Derby. Leigh was part…
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Rinkoo explored isolation in the Deaf community and brought this an R&D using his concept for Bubble and Butch as a starting point. Stephen Collins who is a highly successful Deaf actor, describes the week in a rehearsal studio in Derby with Rinkoo Barpaga. Studio provided with in kind support from Artist development for Derby…
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Aims of the R & D: Rinkoo Barpaga will tell the story of Bubble and Butch and reveal the vulnerability of young deaf people. The bullying and discrimination stops when Bubble is asked to look after a mean looking dog called Butch. The dog is a metaphor for Bubbles access, acting like a superhero at…
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Rinkoo Barpaga is a deaf British Sign Language story teller. In 2012 he spent two weeks immersed in the American deaf story-telling and comedy scene, inspiring him to a new challenge; winning over deaf and hearing mixed audiences. In 2015 he received an Arts Council England Grant to take him back to America to seek…
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