That student was Jamie Rea. During the pandemic, he would go on to collaborate with Cora on a short film called The Singer.<\/p>\n
It tells the story of a deaf musician who forms an unlikely partnership with a washed-up busker.<\/p>\n
The pair have now expanded that into a full-length show, working with Aberdeen Performing Arts, Dundee Rep and Solar Bear, a theatre company which works with both deaf and hearing performers. <\/p>\n
Their creative director, Jennifer Bates, describes it as “a significant moment” for the Scottish theatre landscape, integrating deaf and hearing cast and crew.<\/p>\n
Singer-songwriter KT Tunstall was delighted to be approached to write the music for the show.<\/p>\n
“I couldn’t believe the convergence of elements being so close to my life because we’ve got a deaf character,” she says.<\/p>\n
“My younger brother was born profoundly deaf and I lost my hearing in 2018, so I don’t have any hearing on my left hand side.<\/p>\n
“That’s been a real kind of journey, getting used to being someone who’s hard of hearing and being a musician.<\/p>\n
“And then the other character is a busker in Glasgow. Which was me!”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That student was Jamie Rea. During the pandemic, he would go on to collaborate with Cora on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-734003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}