But when I launched enthusiastically into a spiel about the promising shows from Sophia Kokosalaki and Katarzyna Szczotarska, you could hear eyes glazing over down the transatlantic phone line.
Wittiest of all is Josh's response to hearing "Eye of the Tiger" through headphones: "I remember when this song was just considered bad".
Even if you're straining to hear the vocals, the various effects you can add (Cathedral, Weird, Robot) are a nice touch and the neighbours no doubt appreciated only hearing Eye Of The Tiger "properly" the once.
In "Falling on Hearing Eyes," which centers around a deaf museum curator and his bungling interpreter, the curator leads a tour to examine deaf cultural artifacts.
In addition to "Falling on Hearing Eyes," which will be performed by the Connecticut-based National Theater of the Deaf, the country's oldest theater devoted to deaf artists, Mr. Conley is staging a second production at Deaf Way II.
The Kennedy Center is acting as host for several performances, including a production of one of Mr. Conley's plays, "Falling on Hearing Eyes," a broad comedy about preserving historic elements of deaf culture.
Will Ross visited a camp for displaced people in Yola and heard eye-witness accounts from those who have fled.
They should be coming to hear Beady Eye.
