This year’s Deafestival 1999 event at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) held on Friday & Saturday April 16-17th was a new play, ‘Laugh Properly, Please’ written and directed by world acclaimed Deaf actor Bernard Bragg who also performed along with students in his CSUN theater class and Joshua Soudakoff. Two performances were held at the Performing Arts Center in the university’s Student Union. While tales of the play is derived from Bragg’s life experiences, the focus was on Growing Up Deaf in a World Made for Hearing”.
