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Robert Softley

ROBERT SOFTLEY

  
Nationality:    British
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         Girl X         If these Spasms Could Speak         Purposeless Movements

Girl X

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?

Notes:
Text by Pol Heyvaert, Robert Softley And Bart Capelle

1st Produced:

Organisations:
National Theatre of Scotland

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If these Spasms Could Speak

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

Notes:
Part of Behaviour 2012, the Arches' festival of live performanc

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Purposeless Movements

Synopsis:
What's so great about purposeful movement? Half the fun in this life is not knowing what's coming next. Five guys wait on stage. Each one has cerebral palsy - the way they stand and move is a dead giveaway. When we were born doctors called it Purposeless Movements - for us it's just how we get around. You'll see stories from our lives, stories that ask what it is to move and be moved.

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Birds of Paradise Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  -            Other:  -

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