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A silence full of sounds

Wellington actor Miranda Harcourt who plays Sarah in Children of a Lesser God, understands her character’s sentiments. She spent eight months learning sign language before the play opened at Dunedin’s Fourtune Theatre in October.

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Miranda Harcourt
Miranda Harcourt
Taonga source:
Unknown
Reference number:
SignDNA – Deaf National Archive New Zealand, A1987-004
Bibliographic source:
Unknown, 1987
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