In “Rule Breaking,” Disability Comes to the Stage as Theatre and Therapy
By Debra Weinstein
The complex relationship between brothers and sisters, clients and caregivers, and mothers and sons – all of whom are either living with disability or caring for a disabled person – will be played out on stage in Alec Silberblatt’s Rule Breaking: Disability as Performance, the latest production by the NYU Steinhardt Drama Therapy program.
Rule Breaking tells the story of four real-life couples, all of whom will be performing in the actual production. The play looks at their frustrations; the push-pull conflict inherent in needing protection and wanting autonomy, and the inequalities they face in their daily lives. These people are:
• Delia Camden, a transgender woman who is also living with a developmental disability. She is fighting to obtain the medical and legal support to live as a woman and undergoes her transition with the help of her Program Administrator of almost 30 years, Craig Becker;
• Henry Houghton, a 22 year-old man who is living on the autism spectrum disorder and his sister, actress, playwright and college student Lily Houghton;
• Drama therapist Hodermarska, and her 21-year-old son, Ethan Jones who is also a person living on the autism spectrum; and
• Drama therapist Cecelia Dintino and her 12 year old son, Bernardo Carlucci who is a person living with learning disabilities.
Read more about it on At a Glance
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/site/ataglance/2015/10/drama-therapy-production-of-rulebreakers-to-show-the-impact-of-disability-on-caregiver-relationships.html
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