very disabled actor at Yale School of Drama and unfortunately that’s still noteworthy
Feb 3, 2022 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
In just the 3.5 years at my little hashtag woke liberal bastion of Yale I’ve had to sit through:
- three nondisabled students cast as Richard
- two new plays that cast nondisabled actors to star in physically disabled roles, both positing disability as tragedy (cont…)
- one word premier of a new work at Yale Rep where a sighted actor was cast as a blind man, and that character’s only purpose was to stumble into shit and make the abled laugh
- two shows there the actors donned speech impediments. (Cont…)
