9781841501864
Russia, Freaks and Foreigners is a collection of three thematically linked plays set against the backdrop of a fractured, post-Soviet Russian society. Written by acclaimed playwright James MacDonald, who has cerebral palsy, these performance texts critique accepted notions of normality within authority, offering various models of difference—physical, cultural, and moral—and their stories of dislocation. Their themes, contextualized here by companion essays, expand the boundaries of British drama and connect to the comic grotesque tradition by giving the “abnormal” a broad appeal. Russia, Freaks and Foreigners is a daring portrayal of disability from the inside.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Part One: Texts
Bread and Circus Freaks
The Sweetheart Zone
Emigrés
Part Two: Essays
Getting to Know James MacDonald
Peter Thomson
Director’s Notes
Martin Harvey
Freaks, Food and Fairy Tales: Confronting the Limits of Disability in Bread and Circus Freaks
Thomas Fahy
Epilogue
Su Elliott
Contributors
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