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Theatre and disability / Petra Kuppers.

By: Kuppers, Petra [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017Description: 92 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 18 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781137605719 (pbk.) :Subject(s): People with disabilities and the performing arts | Actors with disabilities | Performing Arts | Performing ArtsDDC classification: 792'.087 Summary: 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.
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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.

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