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November 03, 2005
Casting Tradition to the Wind: Disability and Theatre in the 21st Century
The theatre plays a vital role in democracy, serving as a testing ground for society's most sacred beliefs, mores, and aspirations. Ideas about disability have been "tested" on audiences since Sophocles. Yet disability, as currently represented in character, theme, and metaphor, seems, to those who live it, absurdly out of date and narrowly conceived.
It is time to take stock of the representations. It is time to reimagine casting decisions. It is time for disabled people to be let out of the closet and onto the stage, backstage, theatre offices and Board rooms. Our goal is not merely to increase the participation of people with disabilities in theatre, but to upset the very structures and ways of thinking that have excluded them in the first place. Join us in a discussion about innovative strategies to integrate the theatre curriculum and ways to make the theatrical process more inclusive of disabled people.
Lecture is free and open to the public. ASL Interpreters will be present. Buffet dinner (optional) after seminar ($19). RSVP for event and/or dinner by November 7, 2005. Space is limited; RSVP does not guarantee a place. Please RSVP to dsseminar@gmail.com
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 4:00-6:00 pm
Location: Alfred Lerner Hall, Broadway Room, 3rd floor.
Enter the Columbia Campus at 115th Street and Broadway, follow path to building entrance on right.
Posted by Michelle at November 3, 2005 01:48 PM