What I liked
D’s solo show bridges entertainment and education with a mixture of voices and life experiences. Nearly everyone will face disability at some point in their life, and she provides insight into the shift of the unexpected and provides a call to action. As a disability advocate with an invisible disability I appreciated her approach to informing the audience about personal experience, accessibility, and disability rights. It’s gentle and humorous, and avoids being heavy handed. She does not shy away from the hard conversations. In the words of her mother, “Girls, we have a surprise for you…” the story will take you through humor, heartbreak and personal triumph. D doesn’t deliver inspiration, she delivers aspiration for us all to do better, to make the world more accessible and to hold others to compassionate accountability when they are contributing to lack of access (think non-disabled person parking in a disabled parking spot).
What I didn't like
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My overall impression
An honest and dynamic story of how feelings of otherness were a preparation tool for adapting to disability.
