Artist/Author: Sarah Gorman | Reference: A0735 | Type: Article
The article interrogates the use of amateur and professional disabled performers in the emerging strain of performance practice known as 'performing failure'.
Passionate Amateurs argues that theatre in modern capitalism can help us think afresh about notions of work, time, and freedom. Its title concept is a theoretical and historical figure, someone whose work in theatre is undertaken within capitalism, but motivated by a love that desires something different.