Incapacity and Theatricality - Politics Aesthetics in Theatre Involving Actors With Intellectual

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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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"McCaffrey's research makes an original contribution to this rapidly expanding field, balancing his passion for the topic with deeply considered scholarship, revealing a form of theatre that is aesthetically innovative, plays with the boundaries of theatrical representation, is simultaneously beautiful and disturbing, and is located at the cutting edge of contemporary performance practice." - David O’Donnell, Victoria University of Wellington

Product details

• Authors: Tony McCaffrey, McCaffrey Tony
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9780815349204
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-4920-4
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies; Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Direction & Production, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama), Disability: social aspects, Performance Art, Acting techniques, Theatre Direction & Production, Theatre direction and production, Creative therapy / Expressive therapies