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A photo of a ipad screen. On screen is Jamie Hale, a white person with closely shaved red hair. They are shown from the waist up. They sit in their electric wheelchair and they are naked. They have a tattoo on their arm. Jamie can be seen blurred in the background.

The CRIP Monologues

About The crippled body is an object of disgust and fascination, delight and suspicion. Existing within one is an experience of being stared at, but rarely seen. Nobody wants to be caught staring at disabled people – what happens when they are? The CRIP Monologues consists of a series of monologues written by crips, rehearsed in a devised manner and performed by an ensemble cast. We are people who can’t enter a room without being stared at, at least not in a good way. This time we’re staring back. The monologues explore what it is to live within a body…
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Jamie Hale performs NOT DYING. Jamie, white person with red hair, wears a silver shirt, a beige leather jacket and grey jeans. They stare into the camera as the word 'Brave' is projected and glitches behind them.

NOT DYING

About Created by Jamie Hale, NOT DYING is a multidisciplinary solo(ish) show exposing the interiority of their experiences with disability and mortality, framed against the social context of disableism. Fusing poetry, monologue, and theatre, NOT DYING is both a manifesto of change – boldly highlighting the way disableism sears across their life, limiting their independence and autonomy – and a love letter to wholeness, queer sex, and the bold, transgressive act of living joyfully as a disabled person. Deftly balancing the starkness of facing one’s death with the expansive work of being a disabled person in the world, it brings…
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