{"id":12979,"date":"2025-01-22T15:40:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T15:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/wordpress\/lavie\/?p=12979"},"modified":"2026-07-30T20:18:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:18:47","slug":"nightfall-with-edgar-allen-poe-to-feature-asl-interpreters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2025\/01\/22\/nightfall-with-edgar-allen-poe-to-feature-asl-interpreters\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNightfall with Edgar Allen Poe\u201d to feature ASL interpreters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Katherine Buerke \u201926, staff writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wig and Buckle Theater Company will host an ASL-interpreted performance of its latest production, \u201cNightfall with Edgar Allen Poe,\u201d on Saturday, Jan. 25, at 7 p.m. in Leedy Theatre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters, Lentha Zinsky and Maggie Zuvich, will sign for a variety of different characters, bringing a new layer of accessibility to the stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wig and Buckle collaborated with LVC\u2019s ASL club to bring the interpreters to campus. Olivia Bush, a senior clinical mental health counseling major and director of \u201cNightfall with Edgar Allen Poe,\u201d hopes the show will encourage theatergoers to experience theatre in a new way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPeople may not have experienced this type of show before,\u201d Bush said, \u201c[The audience] will be able to see more range from the company and the actors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brooke Lehrman, a junior speech-language pathology major and president of LVC\u2019s ASL club, worked with local ASL interpreters to bring this opportunity to campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cChloe Rayer, who runs Rae ASL Interpreting Services, LLC, mentioned an interest in having a production interpreted with ASL,\u201d Lehrman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lehrman applied for and received an inclusive excellence microgrant to fund the interpretation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both Bush and Lehrman have high hopes for future collaborations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u201cI hope this show will start a trend of interpretation in our future shows,\u201d Bush said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lehrman hopes that the show will deliver \u201ca multifaceted impact on the students, staff and community outside of LVC so students and teachers at LVC can have a greater understanding of the Deaf experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There will be additional performances of \u201cNightfall with Edgar Allen Poe\u201d on Friday, Jan. 24, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 26, at 2 p.m. Tickets are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/wigandbuckle.booktix.com\/\">this link<\/a> and are free to LVC students.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Katherine Buerke \u201926, staff writer Wig and Buckle Theater Company will host an ASL-interpreted performance of its latest production, \u201cNightfall with Edgar Allen Poe,\u201d on Saturday, Jan. 25, at 7 p.m. in Leedy Theatre. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2025\/01\/22\/nightfall-with-edgar-allen-poe-to-feature-asl-interpreters\/\" title=\"\u201cNightfall with Edgar Allen Poe\u201d to feature ASL interpreters\">[...]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-campus-news","category-front-page","category-homepage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17126,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12979\/revisions\/17126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}