Why Disability Identity Matters: From Dramaturgy to Casting in John Belluso'sPyretown

Abstract

This article explores the significance of disability identity at work in John Belluso's 2004 play Pyretown on two primary levels: the level of the play and the level of production. At the level of the play, the dramaturgical use of the lived experience of disability is examined through a postpositivist realist lens. Then, at the level of production, this article explores how casting decisions affected the author's reception of the play at the Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, in 2004.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 24 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.