TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnston,Kirsty
TI  - Disability theatre and modern drama: recasting modernism 
T2  - Critical companions
SN  - 9781472506382 (ebook)
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
KW  - Actors with disabilities
KW  - People with disabilities and the arts
KW  - Disabilities in literature
KW  - Theater
KW  - History
KW  - Drama
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Performing Arts
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Theatre studies
KW  - thema
KW  - lcsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Also available in printed form ISBN 9781408184493; Electronic reproduction; Askews and Holts; Mode of access: World Wide Web
N2  - A critical companion to disability theatre, encompassing both disability theatre productions of modernist plays and criticism of these plays from a disability studies perspective; Bertolt Brecht's silent Kattrin in Mother Courage, or the disability performance lessons of his Peachum in The Threepenny Opera; Tennessee Williams' limping Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie and hard-of-hearing Bodey in A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur; Samuel Beckett's blind Hamm and his physically disabled parents Nagg and Nell in Endgame - these and many further examples attest to disability's critical place in modern drama. This Companion explores how disability performance studies and theatre practice provoke new debate about the place of disability in these works. The book traces the local and international processes and tensions at play in disability theatre, and offers a critical investigation of the challenges its aesthetics pose to mainstream and traditional practice. The book's first part surveys disability theatre's primary principles, critical terms, internal debates and key challenges to theatre practice. Examining specific disability theatre productions of modern drama, it also suggests how disability has been re-envisaged and embodied on stage. In the book's second part, leading disability studies scholars and disability theatre practitioners analyse and creatively re-imagine modern drama, demonstrating how disability aesthetics press practitioners and scholars to rethink these works in generative, valuable and timely ways
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