Wednesday, April 17, 2019
"Crippled," The USCIS, And The Importance Of Disability As Culture
The Theatre Times: Christina was so taken by the piece that she decided to produce the play through her San Francisco based theater company EXIT Theatre. But in order to get Paul (who is Canadian) in the states to perform, the company would have to get him a “P-3 Visa.” A visa made specifically for foreign artists looking to perform in the US.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
Why does the visa need to be contingent upon something culturally unique? Should not uniqueness itself be a viable criteria to show our country a new performance and open our eyes to a new mindset and new perspective? Perhaps we should change culturally to communally unique as to give “group of persons” more of the groups that it's vagueness it was intended to encompass. I hope that EXIT gets to put on this piece. It is important to see in order to fight against the very stigmas that are resisting Crippled’s performance in the US. Perhaps a solution would be Paul allowing another to perform in his play in order to put the message above the person. It might not be as powerful without it being quite as personal, but so long as it still presents a disabled individual performing a disabled person’s story would that not be enough for the time being?
Post a Comment