Disability Theatre and Modern Drama

Bertolt Brecht''s silent Kattrin in Mother Courage, or the disability performance lessons of his Peachum in The Threepenny Opera; Tennessee Williams'' limping Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie and hard-of-hearing Bodey in A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur; Samuel Beckett''s blind Hamm and his physically disabled parents Nagg and Nell in Endgame – these and many further examples attest to disabi...