Disability and Theatre: A Practical Manual for Inclusion in the Arts

By: Stephanie Barton-Farcas

Narrated by: Stephanie Barton-Farcas

Disability and Theatre: A Practical Manual for Inclusion in the Arts is a step-by step manual on how to create inclusive theatre, including how and where to find actors, how to publicize productions, run rehearsals, act intricate scenes like fights and battles, work with unions, contracts, and agents, and deal with technical issues.

This practical information was born from the author’s 16 years of running the first inclusive theatre company in New York City, and is applicable to any performance level: children’s theatre, community theatre, regional theatre, touring companies, Broadway, and academic theatre.

This book features anecdotal case studies that emphasize problem solving, real-world application, and realistic action plans. A comprehensive companion website provides additional guidelines and hands-on worksheets.

©2017 Routledge press (P)2018 Stephanie Barton-Farcas

We as Artists Need This!

This book is extremely necessary for any artist (especially theatre artists) to read if you truly want to be inclusive in what you do. The practical examples and case studies are extremely helpful to get a real world idea of how to be accommodating and how to actually be what disabled people in the arts world need.

Please read this book…in a different format.

I am very interested in continuing to build my knowledge and praxis in this work, and have planned to pick up a copy of this book. An audiobook? I’m sold!

Unfortunately, I only made it about a minute in. The audio quality is very poor and made to hard to follow the author’s reading (which was also a little lower in skill than an experienced narrator might have made happen).

I’ll ne returning this title, but I do still plan to get a hard copy.