Kaite O'Reilly

Atypical Plays for Atypical Actors

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ISBN 13:: 9781783193172
author:: Kaite O'Reilly
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Oberon Books Ltd
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2016
Pages:: 328
Dimensions:: 13 x 2.3 x 20.8 cm
Genre:: Music, Stage & Screen, Performing Arts, Plays & Drama, Kaite O'Reilly,Atypical Plays for Atypical Actors,Oberon Books Ltd,1783193174,Drama Texts, Plays & Screenplays,Drama,Plays / Drama,Plays,Poetry, Drama & Criticism / Drama,Drama / Anthologies (mul
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Atypical Plays for Atypical Actors: A Collection of Subversive Dramas This collection redefines normalcy and explores disability as a portal to new experience. Kaite O'Reilly's plays challenge the normative gaze, celebrate human variety, and subvert assumptions about disabled people. The selected works include In Water I'm Weightless/The 'd' Monologues, which were part of the Cultural Olympiad, and The Almond and the Seahorse, a character-led realist drama about survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury. These plays showcase a broad approach to issues around disability, from embedded disability politics and aesthetics to 'crip' humour. The works are informed by a political and cultural disability perspective, offering a unique insight into embodied experiences. They 'answer back' to the moral and medical models of disability, attempting to subvert or critique negative representations. By reading these plays, you'll gain a deeper understanding of disability as a complex and multifaceted aspect of human experience.

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