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Glasgow-based theatremaker Ramesh Meyyappan returns to Singapore with an adaptation of Shakespeare's Lear.
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SINGAPORE – At the end of a lively interview with Ramesh Meyyappan, the local theatremaker makes a request.
Signing via an interpreter over the Zoom call, he says to refer to him as a deaf man rather than hearing impaired, a term not widely used in the deaf community as impaired suggests there is something wrong with the person.
