Face On: Disability Arts in Ireland and Beyond

by Kaite O'Reilly (Editor)

This international publication explores Disability and Deaf arts and culture in an Irish context. A thought provoking collection, it contains compelling, engaging, honest and often humorous accounts of artists' personal experiences of disability in terms of both their lives as artists and their identities. Pioneers and veterans of Disability Arts practice meet emerging disability artists and innovators in form; shared experience and difference is acknowledged, whilst speculation, advice and
hopes are offered up for the future.

Featuring 24 contributions from key thinkers and artists from the disciplines of visual art, dance, theatre, literature, film and comedy, Face On presents cultural and political commentary, poetry, academic essays, life writing, extracts from existing scripts and a wealth of visual art.

160 pages, ebook

Published January 10, 2007

About the author

Kaite is an award-winning playwright, dramaturg and prose writer. She was awarded the 2010/11 Ted Hughes Award for New Works in Poetry for her new version of Aeschylus's 'Persians', directed site-specifically on Ministry of Defence land in Wales by Mike Pearson in National Theatre Wales's inaugural year. Two recent productions were part of the Cultural Olympiad, celebrating the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics, produced at Sheffield Theatres, Wales Millennium Centre and Southbank Centre, London. She blogs on creativity and process at www.kaiteoreilly.wordpress.com She is completing her first novel.