Theatre & disability / Petra Kuppers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuppers, Petra, author.

Series:

Theatre&.

Theatre &

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities and the performing arts.

Actors with disabilities.

Physical Description:

viii, 91 pages ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Summary:

This insightful and engaging text examines the complex relationship between theatre and disability, bringing together a wide variety of performance examples in order to explore theatrical disability through the conceptual frameworks of disability as spectacle, narrative, and experience. -- from back cover.

Contents:

Going to the theatre

Note on language: models of disability

Cripping the scene

Representation and the stage

Archives and disability theatre

Against character: melodrama, realism, and contemporary theatre aesthetics

Subversion and openings: staging Weights

Multi-modal theatre

Après-theatre: coming home

Writing disability theatre histories

Infrastructural histories

Theatre history: single companies

Theatre history: freak shows

Excursion: personal histories of a disabled performance-maker

Live Art histories

Theatre history: the asylum

Watching/theatre/history: madhouse caves

Making theatre

An ethic of accommodation

Making shows: theatres in the wild

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-85) and index.

ISBN:

9781137605719

1137605715

OCLC:

968647985

Publisher Number:

99976496507