Incapacity and Theatricality: Politics and Aesthetics in Theatre Involving Actors with Intellectual Disabilities

ISBN-13: 9780367732233 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 204 str.

Tony McCaffrey

Opis

Incapacity and Theatricality acknowledges the distinctive contribution to contemporary theatre made by actors with intellectual disabilities. This book offers an analysis of how these actors have emerged onto the main stage, and how their inclusion calls into question long-held assumptions about theatre and intellectual disability.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Tony McCaffrey is a Lecturer in Creative Industries at the National Academy of Singing and Dramatic Arts, Ara Institute, Christchurch, New Zealand. In 2004 he established the Different Light Theatre Company, an ensemble of performers with intellectual disabilities.