Review of Four Plays about Disability
Abstract
Richard III, The Glass Menagerie, The Elephant Man, Children of a Lesser God, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time are all examples of plays in which disabled characters play prominent roles. But, as James MacDonald notes in his introduction to the last play of this collection, Cripplegate, “[p]lays about disability by disabled authors have been few and relatively unheralded” (p. 187). MacDonald’s lived experience as a disabled person is disclosed in the collection's foreword; and it is this disclosure, in combination with MacDonald’s framing of disability in his plays, that distinctly set Four Plays about Disability apart from some of the more well-known plays above that rely on disabled characters–and, importantly, tropes about disability–to move their stories forward.
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