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ROBERT SOFTLEY |
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Plays by Robert Softley |
Girl X | ||
| 1st Produced: | 05 Mar 2011 | |||||
Company: | National Theatre of Scotland | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87332 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | chorus | |||||
Notes: | Text by Pol Heyvaert, Robert Softley and Bart Capelle | |||||
Synopsis: | Eleven year old Maggie Mills has severe cerebral palsy and the mental age of a 5-month old infant. Her condition will not and cannot change or improve. Her mother believes that the physical changes that accompany adolescence can only bring distress and requests that surgeons remove her daughter's womb. The Mills case is examined from the point of view of the onlookers, a Greek chorus that asks what could or should happen next. Performer and disabled rights activist Robert Softley challenges this chorus and the heartwrenching, highly contested ethical issues that surround the case. When do private matters become public concern? Is the majority always right? Where will it all end? | |||||
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If These Spasms Could Speak | ||
| 1st Produced: | Glasgow: Arches, 253 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G2 8DL, Scotland >>> | 22 Mar 2012 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #138897 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Part of Behaviour 2012, the Arches festival of live performanc | |||||
Synopsis: | We know you want to look, to stare even. It's OK. You're allowed. As disabled people, our bodies are central to how we exist in the world. They're the way others first judge us, the subject of medical diagnosis, and usually seen as the reason that we can't take part in society. And yet, they also carry with them volumes of stories about incidents, scrapes and calamities. Let us tell you how we perceive ourselves. A collection of funny, sad, touching and surprising stories about disabled people and their bodies by actor Robert Softley | |||||
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