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Vive la difference.(Simi Linton leads Casting Tradition to the Wind: Disability and Theatre in the 21st Century)(Brief article)
American Theatre, January, 2006 by Renner, Pamela
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NEW YORK CITY: Simi Linton, author of the memoir My Body Politic (published this month by University of Michigan Press) led a November panel called "Casting Tradition to the Wind: Disability and Theatre in the 21st Century" at Columbia University to examine strategies for the "integration of disability into the creative world of theatre." Linton feels this is a signal moment for new collaborations, and her outlook is optimistic.
Many of America's most extraordinary playwrights and performers, after all, have traditionally been outsiders by virtue of race, ...
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