| re: New ‘Richard III’ Raises an Old Question: Who Should Wear the Crown? |
| Last Edit: singleticket 12:27 pm EDT 05/24/24 |
| Posted by: singleticket 12:20 pm EDT 05/24/24 |
| In reply to: New ‘Richard III’ Raises an Old Question: Who Should Wear the Crown? - Unhookthestars 11:28 am EDT 05/23/24 |
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| I think they are both wrong, the more I think about it. Even in the theater of representation an actor playing a character who is disabled is still preforming a disability. Perhaps that is not true if the disabled actor is playing a character without a disability but that is not the case here, at least textually. The same goes for the performance of any other politicized identity. In public life Gov. Greg Abbott comes to mind, his disability is used to great effect and it is in the service of a politics that is equally about overcoming disability, making disability a fact of every day professional life, and Richard III-like using physical disability as a tool to overpower the abled bodied. |
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