Theatre and disability /
Kuppers, Petra,
Theatre and disability / Petra Kuppers. - 92 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 18 cm
How do disabled people experience theatre, as both audience members and performers? How has the institution of theatre responded to disability over time? How can we create new spaces for performance and attend to different communities' forms of expression? 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.
9781137605719 (pbk.) : £6.99
People with disabilities and the performing arts.
Actors with disabilities.
Performing Arts.
Performing Arts.
792'.087
Theatre and disability / Petra Kuppers. - 92 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 18 cm
How do disabled people experience theatre, as both audience members and performers? How has the institution of theatre responded to disability over time? How can we create new spaces for performance and attend to different communities' forms of expression? 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.
9781137605719 (pbk.) : £6.99
People with disabilities and the performing arts.
Actors with disabilities.
Performing Arts.
Performing Arts.
792'.087