THE INTERVAL: The title of the play Children of a Lesser God was inspired by Lord Tennyson’s narrative poem cycle Idylls of the King, which describes the death of the mythical King Arthur. A cynical, defeated Arthur wonders whether a “lesser god” made his imperfect world, filled with fallible human beings, or if we are simply too “dense and dim” to see the true magnificence of the world as it is. In Children of a Lesser God, Sarah, the play’s female lead, is seldom recognized for who she is, nor is she properly appreciated for her talents and her agency. Sarah has vowed to herself to communicate through ASL as opposed to through spoken language. However, she is an employee and student at a school that continuously tries to get her to renounce her decision and learn to speak instead.
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