Galatea Workshops: Deities in BSL

As part of working with the text of Galatea in both written, spoken, and British Sign Language (BSL) forms, Nadia Nadarajah, Jamal Ajala, Hermi Behrane, and Becky Barry have devised signs for the play’s deities. They’re a constant visual presence in the room by now. Here they are both as GIFs and as YouTube videos:

Dr Andy Kesson

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Dr Andy Kesson is Reader in Renaissance Literature at the University of Roehampton.

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  1. […] And I was like, I’ve got it—shipwreck! And that’s what we used in the scene. And it’s interesting that…even storytelling, you could do the entire play in BSL and I think everyone would get something from it. [You can see signs for the Gods here.] […]

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