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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 The Disability Slapstick Plan
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'A triple-decker narrative of unconventional comedic proportions that navigates the intricacies of access and inclusion. The Disability Slapstick Plan is a daring, funny, and complex work featuring artists with perceived physical disability. Examining the right to begin and end life from a polyphony of perspectives — euthanasia, sex, abortion, IVF, suicidal terrorism, and extremism.

'Led by the Artistic Directors of Ridiculusmus, David Woods and Jonathan Haynes, and featuring an ensemble of four Melbourne artists with different physical abilities, The Disability Slapstick Plan began in response to the tokenistic ‘Disability Action Plans’ employed by companies required to stop disability discrimination.'

Source: National Playwrighting Festival program.

Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia

    Type of disability Varied: the production specifies 'perceived physical disability'.
    Type of character Primary.
    Point of view First person.

Production Details

  • Produced at the National Playwrighting Festival on two dates: 22 March and 24 March 2018.

    Directors: David Woods and Jonathan Haynes (Ridiculusmus).

    Dramaturgical support: Anton Rivette.

    Additional contributors: Kate Hood and Loki Rickus.

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