Victory Gardens presents Crip Slam: A John Belluso Retrospective
Victory Gardens presents Crip Slam: A John Belluso Retrospective, a free, one-night only evening of readings and discussions curated, co-directed and conducted by Mike Ervin and Tanya Palmer as part of Crip Slam, a component of Victory Gardens Access Project. The performance is Sunday, May 22, 2011 at 7:30PM in the Richard Christiansen Theater at the Victory Gardens Biograph, 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue in Lincoln Park.
Playwright John Belluso said he found the topic of disability to be "endlessly fascinating." Up until his death in 2006 at age 36, the rising star playwright explored the disability experience with intensity, humor, and an authenticity rooted in his own experience as a wheelchair user. His plays Pyretown and Henry Flamethrowa were workshopped and produced at Victory Gardens. Educated at NYU, John thought of himself as a writer "born of the contemporary disability civil rights movement of the mid-to late 1970s".
Victory Gardens Access Project Co-director Mike Ervin and Goodman Theater Literary Manager Tanya Palmer, who knew and worked with Belluso, curate and conduct this reading and discussion of scenes from five Belluso plays: beginning with Gretty Good Time, one of his early plays, through The Poor Itch, his last, unfinished play.
Tickets are complimentary, but reservations are required, and space is limited. For reservations, (773) 871-3000; TTY: (773) 871-0682; tickets@victorygardens.org.