Giving and Taking Voice in Learning Disabled Theatre offers unique insight into the question of ‘voice’ in learning disabled theatre and what is gained and lost in making performance. It is grounded in the author's eighteen years of making theatre with Different Light Theatre company.
Tony McCaffrey is a Senior Lecturer at the National Academy of Singing and Dramatic Art, Ara Institute, Christchurch, New Zealand. He has been Artistic Director of Different Light Theatre since 2004 and is the Co-convenor of the Performance and Disability Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research.