Peering Behind the Curtain Disability, Illness, and the Extraordinary Body in Contemporary Theatre

This volume addresses disability in theater, and features all new work, including critical essays, interviews, personal essays, and an original play. It fills a gap in scholarship while promoting the profile of disability in theater. Peering Behind the Curtain examines the issues surrounding disability in many well-known plays, including Children of a Lesser God , The Elephant Man , 'night Mother , and Wit , as well as an original play by James McDonald.King, Kimball is the author of 'Peering Behind the Curtain Disability, Illness, and the Extraordinary Body in Contemporary Theatre' with ISBN 9780415929974 and ISBN 0415929970.