Peering Behind the Curtain (eBook, PDF)

Disability, Illness, and the Extraordinary Body in Contemporary Theatre
Redaktion: King, Kimball; Fahy, Tom

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume addresses disability in theater, and features all new work, including critical essays, interviews, personal essays, and an original play. It fills a gap in scholarship while promoting the profile of disability in theater. Peering Behind the Curtain examines the issues surrounding disability in many well-known plays, including Children of a Lesser God, The Elephant Man, 'night Mother, and Wit, as well as an original play by James McDonald.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135308964
• Artikelnr.: 39908810

Autorenporträt

Thomas Fahy, Kimball King

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1; Chapter 1 Between Two Worlds: The Emerging Aesthetic of the National Theater of the Deaf
Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren; Chapter 2 "Better Me Than You": Children of a Lesser God
Deaf Education
and Paternalism
Robert C. Spirko; Chapter 3 Violence
Pain
Pleasure: Wit
Pamela Cooper; Chapter 4 Making an Art out of Suffering: Bill T. Jones's Uncle Tom
Tess Chakkalakal; Chapter 5
Ruby Cohn; Chapter 6 Depression-the Undiagnosed Disability in Marsha Norman's 'night
Mother
Sarah Reuning; Chapter 7 "Some Unheard-of Thing": Freaks
Families
and Coming of Age in The Member of the Wedding
ThomasFahy; Chapter 8 Young Doctors Come to See the Elephant Man
JohannaShapiro; Part 2; Chapter 9 Acting without Limits: Profiles of Three Physically Disabled Performers
Lilah F. Morris; Chapter 10 Two-Act Play
Nancy Bezant; Chapter 11 An Interview with James MacDonald
Thomas Fahy; Chapter 12 Balance Is Stillness
James Macdonald;