Ebook: Russia, freaks and foreigners: three performance texts

pt. 1. Texts. Bread and circus freaks ; The sweetheart zone ; Emigrés -- pt. 2. 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.;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. To date MacDonald is one of the few severely disabled playwrights to have their work staged and he deals with issues rarely covered in drama."--Jacket.