Friday, March 21, 2008
Braddock library tackles theater for disabled
Post Gazette: "People with disabilities and medical conditions who want to explore their experiences through the medium of theater have long had a champion in drama therapist Lou Zoller."
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I think this is fantastic. I really wish we would be a little more collaborative in the community around us. I know we have opportunities, but I think that spreading our outreach outside of the school has to be made a priority by faculty, staff and students before it ever really catches on. I think that the students at Duquesne are experiencing something very valuable that we often miss because we are so concerned with our own theatre experience.
I really hope that this is a successful project, and more so, I hope that they bring elements into this theatre project that will make people entirely uncomfortable. Especially with the subjects they intend to present, teen suicide that they mentioned in particular, I hope that this serves as a gentle, yet bold, slap in the face reminder to the general public. It is so easy, not to mention a natural form of defending our emotional health, to push these "black sheep" issues under the rug and go about our day to day business as if it never happened or isn't affecting us. In reality, these things do affect everyone in a community as they should! I would love to see the day when people just have to face it all, and I think theatre could be used to implement such progress to a great degree.
As Chapel said, it would be a rewarding experience for everyone if we could integrate our program into the community like this, but if nothing else I hope to be able to attend some of these productions.
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