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Experiences of being ignored, spoken for, misunderstood and under-estimated are frequent occurrences for people with learning disabilities and autism. This lecture will share insights from “I’m Me”, which used inclusive and creative methods to centre people with learning disabilities as artists who have things to say that the world needs to hear. I’m Me worked with more than one hundred learning disabled and autistic artists and seven arts organisations from across the United Kingdom. Together we investigated how learning disabled and autistic artists create, communicate, and understand identity through theatre, dance, visual art, drawing and collaborative creative practice. This lecture will focus on arts-based methods as epistemic enablers that foreground learning disabled and autistic artists as knowledge holders whose creative practice offers vital ways of understanding identity, representation, voice, care, access and social inequality. As one artist said: ‘My experience. I’m wanting to share that in a creative way. That feels powerful.’ Matthew Reason is Professor of Theatre and Director of the Institute for Social Justice at York St John University (UK). His research focuses on politically and socially engaged arts practice, audience research and co-productive and participatory research methodologies. 9. November 2026 18:15 Uhr Seminarraum 01-721 | Georg-Forster-Gebäude
November 3, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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🚨🎭There's a great selection of Performing Arts titles this season from @uofmpress.bsky.social. Explore works on global dance, theater, and cinema and browse UMP's theater series on the LUP website! bit.ly/3C23lL7 @livunipress.bsky.social @jshan.bsky.social #theaterstudies 🩰🎦
January 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Teen actors can step into the world of #Shakespeare with a 10-week theater program that fosters collaboration and self-confidence. Auditions Jan. 24 & 25 in Lenox #WesternMass. #theaterstudies
Shakespeare & Young Company - Hilltown Families
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December 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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ECF publishes on theatre too!
Read ECF at Project MUSE online:
"A Comedian on Tragedy: Colley Cibber’s /Apology/ and /The Rival Queans/," by Vivian L. Davis muse.jhu.edu/article/550612
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A Wayback Wednesday post to 2014.
An 18th-century engraving, a portrait of Colley Cibber. He sits in a chair with his left elbow reading on a side table. He holds a paper in his left hand and a quill in his right hand. He wears a white curly wig on his head and a velvet overcoat with many buttons. A young woman stands on his right side and she has her right hand on the feather quill pen in his hand. Abstract: While eighteenth-century actor and theatre manager Colley Cibber is most frequently discussed within the context of sentimental comedy, this article addresses the comedian’s writing for and about the tragic stage. The neoclassical establishment consistently argued for the propriety of tragedy; however, actor and manager Cibber in his 1740 autobiography makes a case for the ludic qualities of successful tragic performance which, he insists, produces pleasure not tied to moral improvement. Moreover, Cibber embraces, rather than bemoans, the destabilization of social hierarchies that attends confessed generic hybridity. In an analysis of the comic burlesque The Rival Queans, a parody of Nathaniel Lee’s earlier tragedy The Rival Queens, I show how Cibber’s tragic stage was less concerned with categories of masculinity and femininity than in the sheer fluidity of gender...
October 18, 2023 at 2:04 PM