Play: 'Children of a Lesser God'

 

Author: Mark Medoff

 

 

Take 5 drama group started out in 2008 following an adult workshop hosted in the Take 5 studio in Rathcormac by founder member Noelle Clarke. The participants enjoyed the workshop so much that they decided to form a drama group so they could continue exploring their love of drama. They commenced work almost immediately on a one act play for a local festival in Cork and entered the DLI one act festival with a second play. They have continued to enter the one act festival every year since and have reached the All Ireland Final on a number of occasions. This is only their third venture as a group on the full length festival circuit but they are really looking forward to performing for the first time in Ballyduff and wish everyone involved a very happy and fun filled festival.

 

 

James is a young speech therapist in a school for the deaf where he meets Sarah who is totally deaf from birth. He tries to help Sarah learn to lip read and speak but she is a very reluctant student. As their relationship grows it soon becomes evident that the chasm between their worlds of sound and silenced are sometimes too great to cross but its love and compassion that holds the hope of a deeper understanding of their differences.