Taking Your Time:

doi:10.1017/9781009294904.017

Chapter 13 - Taking Your Time:

Research in Learning-Disabled Theatre

from Part III - Interpreting

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2024

Tony McCaffrey

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Tracy C. Davis and

Paul Rae

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Tracy C. Davis: Affiliation:
Northwestern University, Illinois
Paul Rae: Affiliation:
University of Melbourne

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This chapter examines how the research methodology of learning-disabled theatre requires a different consideration of temporality. Tony McCaffrey draws on eighteen years’ work with Different Light Theatre in Christchurch, New Zealand to show how epistemic inequity between non-disabled and disabled participants inflects the outcome-led temporality of ‘inclusion’. He articulates that shifts need to occur from the rush to emulate non-disabled performance towards more speculative practice. The research methods of this practice encompass a more elastic notion of time, allowing for non-verbal, dysfluent rhetoric and a non-linear chronology of development in order to admit the possibility of learning from learning-disabled artists.

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disability theatre diversity temporality speculative practice

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Information: The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies , pp. 255 - 271

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Print publication year: 2024

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