Disability theatre and modern drama : recasting modernism /

• Main Author: Johnston, Kirsty, 1971- (συγγραφέας)
• Other Authors: Lonergan, Patrick (επιμελητής), Wetmore, Kevin J., Jr., 1969- (επιμελητής)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2016.
• Series: Critical companions (Methuen Drama)
• Subjects: Άτομα με ειδικές ανάγκες και παραστατικές τέχνες.; Άτομα με ειδικές ανάγκες στη λογοτεχνία; Μοντερνισμός (Λογοτεχνία); Δράμα > Ιστορία και κριτική > 20ός αιώνας; Δράμα > 21ος αιώνας > Ιστορία και κριτική.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Critical survey of disability theatre aesthetics, politics, and practices. What is disability theatre?
• Critical embodiment and casting
• Staging inclusion
• Inherited plays and new approaches
• Critical perspectives. "Every man his specialty": Beckett, disability, and dependence / Michael Davidson
• Reclaiming the ordinary extraordinary body: or, The importance of The glass menagerie for literary disability studies / Ann M. Fox
• Access aesthetics and modern drama: an interview with Jenny Sealey on Graeae Theatre Company's The threepenny opera and Blood wedding / Kirsty Johnston
• Shattering the glass menagerie / Terry Galloway, M. Shane Grant, Ben Gunter, and Carrie Sandahl.