Tony McCaffrey

Incapacity and Theatricality (eBook, ePUB)

Politics and Aesthetics in Theatre Involving Actors with Intellectual Disabilities

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351165181
• Artikelnr.: 56846063

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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