It’s not about empowerment. It’s about the art.
That’s the philosophy behind Sick and Twisted Theatre, the Winnipeg disability theatre company.
Just ask Debbie Patterson, the company’s artistic director, who was also a performer in their latest production, Antigone, which ended its run in late November.
“There seems to be an attitude that because the performers in this show are disabled, that they’re doing the work for their own benefit and not for the benefit of the audience,” said Patterson, who is in a wheelchair.
With two hard of hearing actors and one partly blind, plus Patterson and another actor with an invisible disability, the most recent production was an…
