Incapacity and Theatricality: Politics and Aesthetics in Theatre Involving Actors with Intellectual Disabilities
- Author: McCaffrey, Tony
This is a powerful contribution to scholarship in learning-disability theatre, offering a critical approach to understandings of what is at stake and for whom - practitioners, critics, theorists... — More…
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Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Framing the singularities of actors with intellectual disabilities in theatrical performance
- Chapter One: 'A spotlight on the subject of retardation': A Child is Waiting
- Chapter Two: Mirror stages: Aldo Gennaro and Robert Wilson
- Chapter Three: Parody, intermediality and postdramatic turns
- Conclusion and afterword: Lines of flight
- Index