Theatre and Disability

This succinct 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.

Accessible and affordable, this is an ideal resource for theatre students and lovers everywhere.

About the author

Petra Kuppers is Professor of English, Theatre and Drama, Art and Design, and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, USA.

Summary

This succinct 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.

Accessible and affordable, this is an ideal resource for theatre students and lovers everywhere.

Product details

• Authors: Petra Kuppers, Kuppers Petra
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 11.08.2017
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet
• EAN: 9781137605719
• ISBN: 978-1-137-60571-9
• Pages: 100
• Dimensions (packing): 10.6 x 17.6 x 0.8 cm
• Series: Theatre And; Theatre And
• Subjects: Performance, Community, Experience, Play, Expression, Narrative, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, Disability: social aspects, Spectacle, inclusivity, accessiblity