Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out?
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Putting disability on full frontal dis/play!
Three of Canada's most daring disabled artists lay bare the sexual politics of disability in the tragic tale of Sip and Cleo: A symbolic love story, told backward – from affirmation to normalization, virility to sterility.... Dramaturge/ Director, Michele Decottignies, offers up a playful parable, one that merges the Morality Play with Burlesque and dresses it up in Theatre of Cruelty stagings, to cheekily expose the non-normativity of disability culture. Co-creators, Alan Shain & Karine Rathle, deliver a physical theatre spectacular that strips away the many layers of oppression which exist amid the intersections of disability, sex and society. Come take a peep into this ballsy exposé of how being granted access to crippling social norms makes some of us sick. Closet Freaks: Mild-mannered individuals on the streets, who get a bit freaky when between some sheets. |
With contributions from...
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Alan Shain
MASCULINITY DIS/ABLING TOXIC IDEALS OF MANHOOD Making disability desirable, by affirming the virility of disabled men. |
Michele Decottignies
DISABILITY DIS/RUPTING NORMALIZATION Challenging the assimilationist aesthetics of inclusive theatre and neoliberal identity politics. |
Karine Rathle
SOCIETY DIS/OBEYING SOCIAL NORMS Rejecting the crippling confinements of conformity and reshaping the politics of the body. |
A Stage Left Production:
Non-normalizing disability theatre, since 1999!
HEADER PHOTO CREDITS
We thank The Great Canadian Theatre Company for the photoshoot and use of our header image; as well as Jared Davidson, for being our model (in drag!).
We thank The Great Canadian Theatre Company for the photoshoot and use of our header image; as well as Jared Davidson, for being our model (in drag!).
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transgressive ART.
intersecting CULTURES. non-normative AESTHETICS. |
