CRITIC’S PICK: "Haddad - he will change the way you think about disability — and prompt you to think of accessibility as something that can deepen a dramatic experience when it’s built into the architecture of the piece."
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"The show does feel a bit short. Is it greedy to want a few more vignettes to let us spend more time with these dynamic performers? Here’s hoping these Stories are just Haddad’s first volume."
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“Jordan Fein’s skillful direction balances the laughter with a well-paced dosing of the grim truth — New York City, like the world, is not built for disabled people. Media often represents the disabled experience as monolithic, but ‘Dark Disabled Stories’ includes a variety of lenses.”
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" 'Dark Disabled Stories' offers a model of how to do theater better, in ways that are more accommodating, accessible, and accepting of all people and bodies."
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“You can check any sentimental notions at the door of this eye-opening, often hilarious, and sometimes scathing exercise…This collection of first-person accounts features surtitles, sign language by the Deaf actor Dickie Hearts, and audio description by Alejandra Ospina, who uses a wheelchair. Although most of Dark Disabled Stories is devoted to Haddad's pitiless stories of navigating the indifferent world of the abled, his co-stars weigh in, too, on everything from taking the subway to picking up a sexual partner; as they make blazingly clear, even the simplest activity can require considerable guts and nerve.”
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"Most of 'Dark Disabled Stories' ultimately centers on people not listening and not recognizing each other's humanity. The show depicts this vividly in a worthwhile 75 minutes in the theatre."
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“Haddad does have a gift for finding the light – the humor – lurking in the ‘dark.’”
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“The play is a compilation of humorous and honest stories about constantly confronting an obstacle, both physical and emotional, in a world not built to accommodate who you are.”
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