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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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…