I Am FIST. I Am A-N-N-A

The heroines of the play are 12-year-old Anna, who is deaf, and her Inner Voice. Anna’s world is one without friends. She has a mother, who, realizing Anna’s deafness is permanent, dreams of another child; a grandmother praying for Anna to speak even one word; and a girl neighbor whom Anna observes with fascination. “I’ve learned not to fully reveal my feelings,” Anna notes.

Anna is a little philosopher and dreamer. But her classmates behave as if she doesn’t exist, showing cruelty and indifference…