Live Show: Anthropology! Drag! Disability!
You are invited to watch the worlds first ever Drag Show scripted and directed by blinking and eye/chin movement.
A Visual Ethnography of the state of being "locked in", the show describes the extraordinary Inner Lifeworlds and Imagination of Sarah Ezekiel, who has been living with MND unable to move or speak for 23 years, with music by Alex Herd (also living with MND)
Produced by Andrew Irving (Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology) and starring a cast of international drag superstars including Cheddar Gorgeous (PhD Anthropology), Black Peppa, Chanukah Lewinsky and TeteBang, Ms MaNDy's Adventures in Wonderland is at the Shaw Theatre, Euston, London on Saturday March 8th.
https://shaw-theatre.com/whats-on/ms-mandys-adventures-in-wonderland
We are pleased to offer Vaneasa subscribers a 30% Discount Code: mandyfriend
Show trailer https://vimeo.com/1056091291/8b7a6fb962?share=copy
Professor Andrew Irving, Dept of Social Anthropology, Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL UK. andrew.irving@manchester.ac.uk
RECENT BOOK: The Art of Life and Death (2017) http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/A/bo25471234.html
RECENT MEDIA PRODUCTION: "The Man Who Almost Killed Himself (BBC Arts, Odeon Cinemas and Edinburgh Festival). A collaboration with Josh Azouz, Don Boyd and HiBrow Media. Watch it on BBC Iplayer or see a clip here http://granadacentre.co.uk/project/man-almost-killed/
RECENT RESEARCH: Enhancing Resilient Deaf Youth and Community Based Film-making (MRC/AHRC) http://deafcamsa.net/
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