ABSTRACT
Play is vitally important in rehearsal. Keep in mind that often disabled people are in quite inequitable money situations if they are employed and it may be more difficult for them to not only physically get to and from rehearsal, but also to foot the bill in emergencies. If need be, have the actors sit with the stage manager before a rehearsal and review every bit of staging or blocking as much as they need to. The actors loved it, as for many of them it is the first time they have ever gotten to do serious stage combat, handle a weapon or dance or be in physically intimate scenes or any hyper-involved kinetic movement process onstage. This type of theatre frees both the audience's ingrained perceptions of what the play should be, and the audience members' ingrained ideas about what disabled artists are capable of.
