Volume 190

This article proposes a way for theatre scholars, critics, and artists to complicate and rethink how disability is understood and depicted onstage. It asks that the signification of disability be complicated to embrace a disabled lens and understanding. ...

Universal accessibility (or design) is a trend that promotes accessibility for everyone in various ways. One of its attributes is to ensure that everyone has equal learning opportunities, especially with the ‘access to information’ format. This applies to ...

The levels of accessibility and accommodation for disabled theatre artists in Canada are diverse and varied. Without consistent infrastructures in place to support these artists, creative workarounds and new ways of creating have been developed. Becky ...

This interview between co-editor Jessica Watkin and Disability artist Salima Punjani delves deeply into Punjani’s multi-sensory art practice, what it was like to create art that structures care during the COVID-19 pandemic, and, ultimately, her vision for ...

In this autoethnographic piece, Riki Entz writes from their lived experience of Disability in the Canadian theatre industry and clearly outlines the ableism they have experienced as a multiply Disabled person. By providing honest examples of ableism, ...

I look at an image of my performance of Free Hugs, an interactive dance installation that sought to activate Tkaronto’s Lisgar Park amid the city’s attempts to reopen during the COVID-19 pandemic in the summer of 2020. More than a year later, a lot has ...

In November 2020, Theatre Passe Muraille produced a workshop as a part of their Accessibility Labs (funded through the Toronto Arts Council’s Open Door Project). This workshop connected the development of Samson Bonkeabantu Brown’s play 11:11, directed by ...

The following is a textual transcript of an interview with Black Deaf artist Natasha Bacchus, a.k.a. Courage. The interview was done by Ash McAskill over Zoom, with ASL-English interpretation by Christopher Desloges. Courage speaks about her entry into ...

Raising the Curtain on the Lived Experience of Dementia (RTC) is a five-year collaboration between education, arts, and health care that uses community-based, arts-engaged, participatory research approaches, including theatre, to work with participants ...

The author reflects on hir coming to identify as physically and cognitively disabled, making performance work concerning these identities and communities, the influence of Sins Invalid’s projects, challenges of securing arts funding while immigrating to ...

Moving Together: Dance and Pluralism in Canada ventures into fraught issues of culture and identity to show how dance, and dance scholarship, can contribute to the evolution of cultural pluralism in Canada. The book explores the history of policies ...

This article examines how the Québécois artist Stanley Février approached the absence of BIPOC artists exhibited and collected at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) with three performative projects that successfully forced the institution to ...

A conversation with Dainty Smith and Golboo Amani, the curators of PUSH.PULL: Intersections of QTBIPOC Cabaret and Performance Art, a six-month online series of interdisciplinary events examining emergent and intersectional developments in performance art ...

This article summarizes a round table on the state of hiring and labour in the field that was conducted at the 2021 Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR) conference. Prompted by the results of a survey conducted by CATR’s Emerging Scholars Task ...