CripTales: Six Monologues
$31.74
- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
5 November 2020
Summary
From the liberation of the electric wheelchair to the ignominy of discrimination and incarceration, there have been both great advances and terrible setbacks for disabled people in Britain over the last fifty years.
Hard-hitting and hilarious, personal and poignant, CripTales comprises six fictional monologues portraying some very real experiences. From negotiating friendships and personal assistants, navigating the benefits system, and experiencing sexual fulfilment, they ch…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848429857 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848429851 |
| Author: | Mat Fraser |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 5 November 2020 |
| Weight: | 86g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
| Series: | NHB Modern Plays |
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Critics Review
“Thought-provoking, amusing and touching.”
‘Hilarious and wise and gentle and furious all at once’
* The Times *‘Moving and authentic… succeeds both as a collective artistic statement, and as an unusually in-depth experience in disability awareness… an emotionally complex, topically diverse series that makes a strong statement for the disability experience and disabled artists’ unique ability to interpret it’
* Forbes *‘A brilliant, shocking, and funny collection… feels like a significant step forward’
* Culture Whisper *‘Sharp, dark and unexpected all at once… these monologues give Alan Bennett a run for his money’
* The i paper *‘Thought-provoking, amusing and touching’
* Financial Times *About The Author
Mat Fraser
Mat Fraser is an internationally known disabled actor, writer and musician. His solo show Cabinet of Curiosities: How Disability Was Kept in a Box won the UK’s Observer Ethical Award for Arts & Entertainment in 2014, and he wrote the ONEOFUS production of Jack & The Beanstalk, for which the New York Times awarded him and his director/performer wife Julie Atlas Muz ‘New Yorkers of the Year’ in 2018. He curated the television series CripTales for BBC America and BBC Four, also writing and acting in one of the pieces, Audition. It was broadcast in 2020.
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