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Autistic License is a surprisingly funny, heartbreakingly tragic, authentically surreal and unflinchingly honest play which offers a glimpse of the rewards and struggles of raising a child with autism.
This critically-acclaimed play goes beyond the statistics and divisive headlines to provide audiences with the personal experience of living with disability.
Autistic License is a play that is ultimately about family, love and relationships. Autism may be the vehicle that drives this theatrical piece, but the true message of the play speaks to anyone who thought their life was going in one direction, only to find themselves on a completely unintended journey.
Autistic License shows how we can love someone for who they are and not for who we thought they would be -- or even who we wanted them to be.
Stacey Dinner-Levin, the playwright, says: “This play is based upon our experience of raising a child with autism; the things that happened in our family that were tragic, surreal and funny. This is the kind of stuff you can’t make up! Nobody sees what goes on in families living with a disability. To me, theater was the perfect vehicle to tell this story and give a voice to all these families. I really wanted to open the doors, take down the walls of our house and say; Come in, take a good look, see this for what it is: the struggle of my life, along with the beauty and the joy.”
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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