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Theatre and disability is a subject focusing on the inclusion of disability within a theatrical experience, enabling cultural and aesthetic diversity in the arts. Showing disabled bodies on stage can be to some extent understood as a political aesthetic as it challenges the predominately abled audience's expectations as well as traditional theatre conventions.
In more than two decades since the stage show launched, disabled 'Wicked' character Nessarose has never been played by a real-life wheelchair user. Enter newcomer Marissa Bode.
Cripping-up is the act of casting an actor without a visible disability into a screen or theatre role which is scripted as having visible disability, or is about an historical figure who is know to have had a disability. This does not include disabled actors being cast in roles with different conditions to their own where the character's ...
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will launch the Disabilities, Representation and Film program July 13 in commemoration of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which was signed into law in ...
Disability in the arts can also refer to work that is made as a political act toward shaping a new community, fostering disability culture: Disability culture is the difference between being alone, isolated, and individuated with a physical, cognitive, emotional or sensory difference that in our society invites discrimination and reinforces ...
The coming-of-age drama “Out of My Mind” from Disney+ and Bleecker Street’s dramedy “Ezra” are among the films recognized by the Ruderman Family Foundation for their “groundbreaking ...
Films about disability in the United Kingdom (35 P) Films about disability in the United States (2 C, 252 P) Documentary films about people with disabilities (10 C, 62 P)
Inevitable Foundation’s latest survey has found that audiences have expressed “dissatisfaction” with disability representation in the entertainment industry. The “Audiences Are Waiting for ...