For the holiday season, Sinclair Community College\u2019s theatre department will be presenting the American Christmas classic, \u201cA Charlie Brown Christmas\u201d in a new light. For the first, time in Miami Valley, the show will be presented with live actors playing the Peanuts characters. In a collaboration with the Theatre department and the American Sign Language department, this will be a first as ASL students will be shadowing the actors, meaning they will be translating for actor\u2019s right next to them instead of off stage.
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\n\u201cThe rights for the play became available in late 2013 and Sinclair will be the first to perform it in Dayton,\u201d said Patti Celek, the marketing specialist for the Theatre and Dance department. \u201cIt\u2019s a short performance of a classic, and the timing for it is just perfect.\u201d \u201cI was really pumped to get the role, but quite nervous because I want to do the character justice,\u201d said Woodie Hieb, the actor portraying Charlie Brown. \u201cEveryone knows who Charlie Brown is, and I have to embody him as best as I can.” I\u2019m so excited because I grew up watching Charlie Brown and I too want to be able to bring my character justice\u201d says Anna Sheldon, the actress portraying Lucy. \u201cI want to be able to give people what they are expecting. I want to give Lucy a little bit of sass but show that she does genuinely care for Charlie Brown\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a whole, we\u2019re really excited about it because shadow interpreting isn\u2019t something we see very often in this area\u201d Said Gwendolyn McNeal, the ACF Instructor and practicum supervisor. \u201cWe normally see it in bigger cities so we\u2019re really excited to have the opportunity with the theatre department to do something that’s better for the community and for the hearing impaired. Normally, the hearing impaired have to look towards the sides to see the translations but with this play, our shadow interpreters are right on stage with the actors.\u201d One of the interpreters, Daniel Lumpkin, says, \u201cWe are not interpreting the script, we are interpreting the performance of the actors\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the shadow interpreter next to me is cool because it\u2019s not just me as Charlie Brown, it\u2019s me and my partner\u201d says Woodie Hieb. \u201cThe experience is so cool because I think it\u2019s going to give a different feel for the show and it\u2019s cool to see what your words will look like.\u201d Said Anna Sheldon.<\/p>\n
Be sure to see \u201cA Charlie Brown Christmas\u201d presented by the Sinclair Theatre and Dance department in Building 2 in Blair Hall.<\/p>\n
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Wed.: Dec. 17 \u2013 Noon Thurs.: Dec. 18 \u2013 10AM<\/p>\n
(American Sign Language Shadow Interpreted) <\/em> (7 PM American Sign Language Shadow Interpreted) <\/em> For the holiday season, Sinclair Community College\u2019s theatre department will be presenting the American Christmas classic, \u201cA Charlie Brown Christmas\u201d in a new light. For the first, time in Miami Valley, the show will be presented with live actors playing the Peanuts characters. In a collaboration with the Theatre department and the American Sign Language […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4535,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tartan-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-2Ll","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10624,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10623\/revisions\/10624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFri.: Dec. 19 \u2013 Noon and 7PM<\/p>\n
\nSat.: Dec. 20 \u2013 2PM and 7PM Ticket prices are $8 for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"