Beyond victims and villains : contemporary plays by disabled playwrights / edited by Victoria Ann Lewis.

1st ed.

xlv, 406 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-406).

Introduction / Victoria Ann Lewis -- Creeps / David Freeman ; Variable cast. -- Shoot! / Lynn Manning ; 3 characters (3 men). -- P.H.*reaks : the hidden history of people with disabilities / Doris Baizley and Victoria Ann Lewis ; 7 characters (4m, 3w). -- The history of bowling / Mike Ervin ; 4 characters (3m, 1w). -- Gretty good time / John Belluso ; 9 characters. -- A summer evening in Des Moines / Charles L. Mee, Jr. ; 13 characters (9m,4w). -- No one as nasty / Susan Nussbaum ; 17 characters (11m, 6w). -- Afterword: the casting question / Victoria Ann Lewis.

This anthology offers insights into the ongoing dialogue in theater about diversity, multiculturalism, and universality, and the debates in our civic life about interdependence vs. independence.

1559362502

812.60809207 B573 2006