1st Edition
Drama, Disability and Education A critical exploration for students and practitioners
By Andy Kempe
Copyright 2013
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
What can society learn about disability through the way it is portrayed in TV, films and plays?
This insightful and accessible text explores and analyses the way disability is portrayed in drama, and how that portrayal may be interpreted by young audiences. Investigating how disabilities have been represented on stage in the past, this book discusses what may be inferred from plays which... Read more
Introduction 1. Dramatic encounters with disability 2. A chronology of disabled dramatic characters 3. ‘Damaging mythology: disability and stereotype 4. The dramatic symbolism of disability 5. Performing disability 6. The body beautiful, the beautiful mind 7a. Who cares? 7b. Play script: For ever and ever 8a. Peer perspectives 8b. Play script: Buckethead 9. From the horse's mouth Plays referred to References Index
Biography
Andy Kempe is a Teaching Fellow of the University of Reading, UK, where he is Professor of Drama Education.
