Panel on Aditi Kapil's Love Person with ASL Community Event

Company One hosted a discussion about Aditi Kapil's Love Person and collaboration with Boston's Deaf community livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 10 June 2012 at 1:15 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 3:15 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 4:15 p.m. EDT (Boston) / 20:15 GMT / 9:15 p.m. BST (London) / 10:15 p.m. CEST (Berlin).

In celebration of the production of Aditi Brennan Kapil’s Love Person, as well as collaborations with Boston’s Deaf community, Company One theatre in Boston hosted an ASL Community Event featuring Aditi Brennan Kapil (Playwright), Bonnie Kaplan (Director of Cultural Access and The Open Door Gallery at VSA Massachusetts), production team members, moderated by Ilana M. Brownstein (Company One Director of New Work). The conversation with Kapil, followed by discussion with the audience, was livestreamed on HowlRound TV at howlround.tv, and was interpreted in American Sign Language. Deaf and hearing audiences are welcome both in person, as well as online.

Love Person is a transcendent four-part love story told in Sanskrit, American Sign Language, English, and email. Two couples are rocked to their cores when love unexpectedly transcends sexual orientation, physical attraction, and social structures. Free, a Deaf woman in a relationship with Maggie, accidentally strikes up a correspondence with Ram, a Boston University professor of Sanskrit and love-interest of Free’s sister Vic. The four find themselves inextricably bound by technology, translation, and the breakdown of language itself. More information here.

Aditi Kapil is an actress, writer, and director, of Bulgarian and Indian descent. She was raised in Sweden, and resides in Minneapolis, MN. She is a graduate of Macalester College with a BA in English and Dramatic Arts, has performed extensively in the Twin Cities and around the country, her writing has been nationally produced to critical acclaim. Her play Love Person received the 2009 Stavis Playwriting Award. Her latest play, Agnes Under the Big Top, a tall tale was selected as a Distinguished New Play Development project by the NEA as administered by Arena Stage, and recently premiered at Mixed Blood Theatre and Long Wharf Theatre. aditikapil.com

VSA Massachusetts The state organization on arts and disability, VSA Massachusetts promotes the involvement of people of all abilities in the cultural life of our communities through:
1) Developing multi-sensory arts-integrated teaching strategies in our schools, creating new experiences for all students
2) Sponsoring exhibitions and performances by artists of all abilities
3) Helping families and communities understand and celebrate the transformative effect of art making over time

About HowlRound TV

HowlRound TV is a global, commons-based, peer-produced, open-access livestreaming and video archive project stewarded by the nonprofit HowlRound. HowlRound TV is a free and shared resource for live conversations and performances relevant to the world’s performing-arts and cultural fields. Its mission is to break geographic isolation, promote resource sharing, and develop our knowledge commons collectively. Anyone can participate in a community of peer organizations revolutionizing the flow of information, knowledge, and access in our field by becoming a producer and co-producing with us. Learn more by going to our participate page. For any other queries, email [email protected] or call Vijay Mathew at +1 917.686.3185 Signal. View the video archive of past events.