Giving and Taking Voice in Learning Disabled Theatre

ISBN-13: 9780367539009 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 232 str.

Tony McCaffrey

Opis

Giving and Taking Voice in Learning Disabled Theatre offers unique insight into the question of ‘voice’ in learning disabled theatre and what is gained and lost in making performance. It is grounded in the author's eighteen years of making theatre with Different Light Theatre company.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Giving and Taking Voice.  1, Part 2. Setting the Scene: The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes  2. Community Theatre and Myths of Community  3. Dramatic Theatre and the Temporality of Learning Disabled Theatre  4. Intertextuality and Intermediality: Performing Responses to the Disabling of the City  5. Learning Disabled Performance Research: Ecologies, Histories, Philosophies  6. From the Theatre to the After Party 

O autorze

Tony McCaffrey is a Senior Lecturer at the National Academy of Singing and Dramatic Art, Ara Institute, Christchurch, New Zealand. He has been Artistic Director of Different Light Theatre since 2004 and is the Co-convenor of the Performance and Disability Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research.