Peering Behind the Curtain: Disability, Illness, and the Extraordinary Body in Contemporary Theatre

ISBN	9780415929974
Publisher	Routledge
Manufacturer	Routledge

This book examines disability in theater and features new work as well as critical essays, interviews, personal essays, and an original play. It fills a gap in scholarship and promotes the profile of disability in theater.

This volume addresse disability in theater, and features all new work, including critical essays, interviews, personal essays, and an original play. It fills a gap in scholarship while promoting the profile of disability in theater. Peering Behind the Curtain examines the issues surrounding disability in many well-known plays, including Children of a Lesser God, The Elephant Man, 'night Mother, and Wit, as well as an original play by James McDonald.