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When Neurodiverse Actors Make A Play Better

THEATRE Posted: January 16, 2020 12:01 pm

“When it comes to acting, neurodiversity — a term embraced by many people with intellectual, social and other disabilities arising in the brain and nervous system — involves more barriers and engages more prejudice than even physical challenges do.” Jesse Green writes about one case where an actor changed his conception of autism (perhaps it’s a sort of dialect) and another where a performer with Tourette’s syndrome seems “an ideal interpreter” of one of Beckett’s most challenging scripts. – The New York Times

THEATRE Published: 01.13.20

Read the story in New York Times Published: 01.13.20

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