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.

Undergraduate and postgraduate students of Theatre and Performance Studies; Undergraduate and postgraduate students of Applied Theatre; Undergraduate and postgraduate students of Disability Studies

Autorentext

Petra Kuppers

Inhalt

Series editors' preface.- 1. Going to the Theatre.- 2. Writing Disability Theatre Histories.- 3. Making Theatre.- Further reading.- Index.