Dramaturgy: Wishful Thinking

My post grad program at the VCA is almost over. All my papers have been handed in! For the last 2 weeks, we have been working on our last seminar: a workshop on Adaptation with Humphrey Bower, a Perth-based dramaturg.
Our project has been to begin to adapt a novel for the stage. The novel is WISH by Peter Goldsworthy, an Australian writer.
"What's it about?" you ask. One of my fellow directors, Paul Terrell wrote a great trailer for the project:

J.J is an AUSlan sign teacher. He is asked to teach a student who is beyond our world, and to whom, under normal circumstances, sign would be impossible to teach. However, the relationship between the two of them is extra-ordinary... one that explores love, language, taboo and what it means to be human.