Thursday, July 20, 2017
Under the Big Top: Creating Multi-Sensory Work for Children with Autism
HowlRound: It is about two-thirds of the way through the show. Actor Noah LaPook looks to me, the stage manager, with a look of panic in his eyes. The inherent question passing from actor to stage manager is “what do we do?” Not a single child in the audience is paying attention to the story being told. Some of them are even running around the space. Some of them are drawing on the set with chalk. I sit back and send a silent answer back to the questioning actor: “have fun!”
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The articles discusses the inspirational work done by the Seesaw Theatre and explains the motivation behind and purpose of this kind of theater. I think very often theater, and the world, in general, is geared towards serving one group of people but excludes another large and significant group. In this case, there is very little theater that is friendly towards children with autism and I think the work done by the Seesaw Theatre is extremely important and should spread through the country and the world. This kind of project required a lot of work and devotion to become fully developed and effective, and I think this article expresses the impressive amount of effort put in to this project. The care with which the system was constructed, in which what the children wanted was put first, was evident and the structure but flexibility within the program, convinced me that this project was not just a half-baked attempt to be inclusive, but is a thriving and nurtured endeavor
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