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Author: Stephanie Barton Farcas
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.453kg
ISBN: 9781138288966
ISBN 10: 1138288969
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 20 July 2017
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print 
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Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS Dedication PREFACE CHAPTER 1: WHY THIS BOOK? CASE STUDY 1: A Seizure on stage. NICU’S SPOON Theater Company, New York City. CHAPTER 2: WHAT IS INCLUSION? A: The most standard misconceptions people have about disability and inclusion and why they are wrong. B: The reasons theaters, college training programs or practitioners are not inclusive. C: The wrong reasons to be inclusive. CASE STUDY 2: Stage Manager in a wheelchair. NICU’S SPOON Theater Company, New York City. CHAPTER 3: VOCABULARY AND PERCEPTION CASE STUDY 3: Disabled artist as villain. NICU’S SPOON Theater Company, New York City. CHAPTER 4: RECRUITING AND FINDING ARTISTS CHAPTER ACTION: Write an audition ad. CASE STUDY 4: DIONYSUS THEATER In Houston, TX. Deborah Nowinski, Artistic Director CHAPTER 5: AUDITIONS AND CALLBACKS CHAPTER ACTION: Make an audition or callback checklist CASE STUDY 5: Can an actor who is deaf speak? NICU’S SPOON Theater Company, New York City. CHAPTER 6: REHEARSALS CASE STUDY 6: Snow White & Richard III, NICU’S SPOON Theater Company, New York City. CHAPTER 7: BLOCKING AND FIGHT SEQUENCES CASE STUDY 7: Think outside the box for accessible sets and non-standard staging. NICU’S SPOON Theater Company, New York City. CHAPTER ACTION: A seven point list of how to proceed to do a cast dance for a period play. CHAPTER 8: COSTUMES, PROPS AND MAKEUP CASE STUDY 8: Opening the Door. PHAMALY Theater, Denver, Colorado CHAPTER 9: TECHNICAL REHEARSALS AND FINAL DRESS CASE STUDY 9: A large disabled and diverse cast in technical rehearsal. NICU’S SPOON Theater Company, New York City. CHAPTER 10: PUBLIC RELATIONS AND MARKETING CASE STUDY 10: PHAMALY Theater Company, Denver, Colorado CHAPTER ACTION: CREATE YOUR PR AND MARKETING PLAN CHAPTER 11: THE PERFORMANCE RUN AND STRIKE CHAPTER ACTION: The strike worklist and delegating. CASE STUDY 11: A blind actor and discovering colors. NICU’S SPOON Theater Company, New York City. CHAPTER 12: TECHNICAL CREW AND TECHNICAL DESIGNS CASE STUDY 12: THAT UPPITY THEATER COMPANY, St. Louis, Missouri. CHAPTER 13: ACADEMIC TRAINING, ASSESSMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY CHAPTER ACTION: How well is your institution doing? CASE STUDY 13: The Glass Menagerie, a personal case study. Christine Bruno. CHAPTER 14: ASSESSMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY IN THEATERS CASE STUDY 14: TBI and mental disabilities. NICU’S SPOON Theater Company, New York City. CHAPTER ACTION: Assess your theater for sustainability. CHAPTER 15: AFTERWORD CASE STUDY 15: GIDEON PRODUCTIONS, New York City. CHAPTER 16: CASE STUDY OUTCOMES BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RESOURCES WEBSITES AS RESOURCES ASSOCIATIONS AND INCLUSIVE THEATER COMPANIES LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS GLOSSARY
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Stephanie Barton-Farcas is the Artistic Director of Nicu’s Spoon Theater Company. Founded in 2001, it is the first company in NYC history to be fully inclusive (age, gender, color, religion, disability, nationality). She is also the cofounder of the Disability Cinema Coalition. She recently directed Richard III with a disabled cast except for the title role and her company Nicu’s Spoon is the subject of the documentary Two and Twenty Troubles which follows the production of The Cherry Orchard and four of the disabled actors in it. She has been profiled in The NY Times, Variety, American Theater Magazine and Playbill as a director and advocate. As a writer she has been published in Backstage, Howlround and many other disability or theater publications as well as lecturing and teaching at SAGAFTRA, AEA and many film and theatre industry associations and colleges (Columbia, NYU) in the US and in Europe (CEU in Hungary, University of Riga, University of Kiev, Royal Conservatoire Scotland among others) about inclusion in the arts.
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