In each issue of D&T, we take a page-to-stage focus on a play for performance with your students. This time, Ali Warren considers this work by JJ Green – a fascinating theatrical insight into the world of autism.
Neurodivergent. It's one of those terms that we need to learn to understand and appreciate. I think its very much about the way the world has expanded, and we have become more aware of the huge variety of human life.
Autism, in particular, has been something that we, as a community, we have found ourselves trying to comprehend. It has been with us for some time; many famous figures through history have been identified as being on the spectrum – figures as diverse as Albert Einstein and Alfred Hitchcock. And as we learn about this range of humanity it seems that art will follow this sense of exploration. Theatre, as we all know, is the strongest way of creating empathy with people with a different world experience that ourselves.
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