# Dead Centre: Deaf Republic

Dead Centre: Deaf Republic at Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, Thursday 12 November 2026, until 15 Nov.

- Price: $50–90
- Venue: Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, LaGuardia Place 566
- With: Dead Centre, Zoë McWhinney
- Get tickets: https://tickets.nyu.edu/overview/19147
- Go to page: https://nyuskirball.org/performance/deaf-republic/

![Dead Centre: Deaf Republic](https://noky.io/images/bdc4a4b7b403e89b3be7d5ec9332e6dfbc1e4a37dadeb92eed9afbc045d3f03c-2000.webp)

Dead Centre: Deaf Republic is a theater production making its North American premiere. Dublin's Dead Centre and sign language poet Zoë McWhinney adapt Ilya Kaminsky's poetic narrative: after a soldier shoots a deaf boy in an occupied town's public square, the whole town wakes up deaf, refusing to hear the soldiers and teaching one another a sign language of resistance. A deaf and hearing ensemble folds sign language, puppetry, live cinema, aerial work, and music into a single form, turning quiet itself into something political. The show, fresh from an acclaimed premiere at London's Royal Court, runs two hours with no intermission and is performed through a mix of International Sign, spoken English, and moments of creative captioning.

## Dates

- Thursday 12 November until 15 Nov — Skirball Center for the Performing Arts

Written by a model, sources: [nyuskirball.org](https://nyuskirball.org/performance/deaf-republic/)

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