Tony McCaffrey

Incapacity and Theatricality (eBook, ePUB)

Politics and Aesthetics in Theatre Involving Actors with Intellectual Disabilities

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Incapacity and Theatricality acknowledges the distinctive contribution to contemporary theatrical performance made by actors with intellectual disabilities. It presents a close examination of certain key theatrical performances across a variety of different media, including John Cassavetes' 1963 social issues film A Child Is Waiting; the performance art collaboration between Robert Wilson and Christopher Knowles; and the provocative pranksterism of Christoph Schlingensief's talent show mockumentary FreakStars 3000.

Tracing a global path of performances, Incapacity and Theatricality offers an analysis of how actors with intellectual disabilities have emerged onto the main stage, and how their inclusion calls into question long-held assumptions about both theatre and intellectual disability.

For postgraduate students, or anyone interested in the shifting dynamics of twenty-first century theatre, McCaffrey's work offers a vital consideration of the intersubjective relations between people with and without intellectual disabilities and ultimately addresses urgent questions about the situation and representation of the contemporary subject caught up somewhere between incapacity and theatricality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351165181
• Artikelnr.: 56846063

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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