Deaf Arts Incubator Double Bill

Why we picked it

Inside Out Theatre's inaugural Deaf Arts Incubator Double Bill featuring Suffocate II : The Night's grabbing Mara a multimedia performance combining live theatre and short film created by Audivoir & Matthew Courtemanche  and  Braiding Histories a work-in-progress showing created and performed by Crystal Wolfe and Ebony R. Gooden   About Suffocate II : The Night's Grabbing Mara Inspired by Henry Fuseli’s The Nightmare (1782), Mara—from an old linguistic meaning of “ghost”—confronts an intertemporal universe to bring the sexist, racial, and colonial issues of the past into the present, revealing the scars experienced by racialized women. Created in American Sign Language (ASL) by and for Deaf people, the narrative is built from