Bertolt Brechts silent Kattrin in Mother Courage; or the disability performance lessons of his Peachum in The Threepenny Opera; Tennessee Williams limping Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie and hard-of-hearing Bodey in A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur; Samuel Becketts blind Hamm and his physically disabled parents Nagg and Nell in Endgame ndash; these and many further examples attest to disabilitys critical place in modern drama. This Companion explores how disability performance studies and theatre practice provoke new debate about the place of disability in these works. The book traces the local and international processes and tensions at play in disability theatre; and offers a critical investigation of the challenges its aesthetics pose to mainstream and traditional practice. The books first part surveys disability theatres primary principles; critical terms; internal debates and key challenges to theatre practice. Examining specific disability theatre productions of modern drama; it also suggests how disability has been re-envisaged and embodied on stage. In the books second part; leading disability studies scholars and disability theatre practitioners analyse and creatively re-imagine modern drama; demonstrating how disability aesthetics press practitioners and scholars to rethink these works in generative; valuable and timely ways.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Heart of a CityBy David W. TankersleyWilliam Beardens Overton Park is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of large urban park areas. The park stands today as both a testament to Memphiss early city fathers appreciation of natural beauty and the communitys constant struggle to maintain nature as a priority in a changing-environment. Bearden captures the wonder of the park through text and photos and details the long and storied history of one of the nations largest urban parks. A climax forest; Overton Park is both an amazing world of flora and fauna as well as serving as home to the zoo and the citys art college. It has withstood encroachment by potential developers and the sixties interstate cancerous growth of highways; with a small cadre of concerned citizens taking their successful fight of I-40 through the park to the U.S. Supreme Court. Beardens book is a treasure for anyone who appreciates urban history and the role community parks serve as symbols of civic pride and history.
