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Blue Apple Theatre. Blue Apple Theatre is a theatre company based in Winchester, England. It was founded in 2005 by Jane Jessop to support the inclusion of actors with intellectual disabilities on mainstream stages. [1] In May 2012, six Blue Apple actors toured a re-imagining of William Shakespeare 's Hamlet around the south of England. [2]
Graeae Theatre Company, often abbreviated to Graeae (pronounced "grey-eye"), is a British organisation composed of deaf and disabled artists and theatre makers. As well as producing theatre which it tours nationally and internationally to traditional theatres and outdoor spaces, Graeae run a large and varied Creative Learning and training programme for emerging, young and mid-career deaf and ...
Theatre and disability is a subject focusing on the inclusion of disability within a theatrical experience, enabling cultural and aesthetic diversity in the arts. Showing disabled bodies on stage can be to some extent understood as a political aesthetic as it challenges the predominately abled audience's expectations as well as traditional theatre conventions.
Kaite O'Reilly. Kaite O'Reilly FRSL is UK-based playwright, author and dramaturge of Irish descent. She has won multiple awards for her work, including the Ted Hughes Award (2011) for her version of Aeschylus 's tragedy The Persians.[1] O'Reilly's plays have been performed at venues across the UK and at the Edinburgh Festival. [2]
Disability. Disability in the arts is an aspect within various arts disciplines of inclusive practices involving disability. It manifests itself in the output and mission of some stage and modern dance performing-arts companies, and as the subject matter of individual works of art, such as the work of specific painters and those who draw.
DV8 Physical Theatre. DV8 Physical Theatre (or Dance and Video 8) was a physical theatre company based at Artsadmin in London, United Kingdom. It was officially founded in 1986 by Lloyd Newson (1986–2015), Michelle Richecoeur (1986–1988) and Nigel Charnock (1986–1989, 1992). Lloyd Newson led the company as choreographer and artistic ...
Hijinx is a professional theatre company with its base at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, Wales. [1] They are also a touring company, performing at the Glastonbury Festival and Edinburgh Festivals, [2] and tour also small scale theatres throughout the UK and Europe. [1] The cast includes actors with and without learning disabilities. [1]
Mischief Theatre is a British theatre company that was founded in 2008 by a group of students from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in West London, and directed by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields. [1] The group originally began by doing improvised comedy shows, but by 2012, they expanded into comedic theatrical ...