Explores representations of cancer in fictional worlds and autobiographical performances while also highlighting work that reimagines and reinvigorates the genre of ‘Cancer Performance’.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
The contributors to this book, writing from a variety of subject disciplines and interests, explore a range of the uses of autobiography from the nineteenth-century to the present day, and from Africa, USA, the Middle East, France, New Zealand, as well as Britain.
Pity is a performance piece made into a film. Performance at LUPA FETE June 2013. In the 1970s the original collection boxes were a common sight outside Scope charity shops (formerly known as The Spastics Society).