Trap Door Theatre’s Trap Open Series Presents
Hand Foot Hand
Written by and featuring Deborah Kent
Directed by Kate Hendrickson
February 9th, 2025 at 3:30pm
The performance will include ASL interpretation.
The performance will feature a Touch Tour. The touch tour will be held 30 minutes before the show begins.
What is it like to enter a brand-new school in eighth grade when you’re the first blind student they’ve ever enrolled? Imagine attending your first party as a college student, or setting out to look for your first job when most employers blanch at the thought of hiring a blind applicant. Author and performer Deborah Kent takes us on a journey that begins in a small New Jersey town, moves on to a college campus in the turbulent Sixties, explores the streets of New York’s Lower East Side, and carries us to a community of writers in central Mexico. Laced with wry humor, this is a story about searching for footholds in a world that is not always welcoming and discovering handholds in the most unexpected places.
Hand, Foot, Hand was developed at Chicago Dramatists with the generous support of the Access Fellowship program and premiered at Lifeline Theatre’s 2024 Fillet of Solo Festival.
All proceeds to to support NFB Illinois.