Disability theatre and modern drama : recasting modernism /

Johnston, Kirsty, 1971-

Disability theatre and modern drama : recasting modernism / Recasting modernism Kirsty Johnston ; series editors : Patrick Lonergan and Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. - viii, 228 pages ; 22 cm. - Critical companions . - Critical companions (Methuen Drama) .

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-223) and index.

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 / Reclaiming the ordinary extraordinary body: or, The importance of The glass menagerie for literary disability studies / Access aesthetics and modern drama: an interview with Jenny Sealey on Graeae Theatre Company's The threepenny opera and Blood wedding / Shattering the glass menagerie / Michael Davidson -- Ann M. Fox -- Kirsty Johnston -- Terry Galloway, M. Shane Grant, Ben Gunter, and Carrie Sandahl. Introduction --

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Drama--History and criticism.--20th century
Drama--History and criticism.--21st century
Modernism (Literature)
People with disabilities and the performing arts.
People with disabilities in literature.

PN1590.H36 / J63 2016

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