Framingham's Olivia Moriarty Participated in Emerson College's Production of Mother Hicks

Olivia Moriarty, of Framingham, majoring in theatre education, was part of the College’s production of Mother Hicks as Signing Artist and Sign Captain.

It’s the first play in Suzan Zeder’s Ware Trilogy, which follows the story of a young deaf man named Tuc as he searches for community, understanding, and a place to call home.

Set in the small town of Ware, Illinois, each of the stories will be “shadow interpreted” throughout: an English-speaking actor performs his or her lines and is “shadowed” by a separate actor, who is interpreting the lines into American Sign Language (ASL). All performances will be open-captioned as well.

With the exception of local deaf actor Elbert Joseph, who plays the character of Tuc in all three productions, the cast of Mother Hicks is made up of Emerson College students majoring in Performing Arts who have a curricular and social interest in deaf culture. Some of the students are minoring in Hearing and Deafness through the College’s Communication Sciences and Disorders Department.

Mother Hicks was shown on Emerson’s Paramount MainStage in February.

Photo courtesy of Emerson College