Grin And Bare It Disability Arts Theatre Company
Busta Wheels And The Not-So-Normal Crew. Photo: Stan Gamester
AIMS:
* To celebrate and promote disability culture
* To entertain, empower and educate
* To provide a safe, accessible space for disabled artists to develop their skills
* To provide a safe, accessible space for audiences and performers
* To create work for disabled artists
* To create opportunities for disabled performers
'Style, quality and hard-edged humour' ETC
'Deserves to be seen nationwide' NorDAF News
ABOUT US
Welcome to our new and evolving website. Grin And Bare It are based in Tyneside. We are a diverse group of disabled writers, actors and musicians. This gives us a unique and often comic perspective on how society excludes us.
PERFORMANCES AND WORKSHOPS.
GABI have hosted two cabaret evenings at The Buddle Arts Centre showcasing disabled performers and appeared at events for Tees Valley Arts, DANE (Disability Action North East), Mental Health Matters, norDAF, Hexham Arts Centre, The Gateshead Access Panel, Tyne Metropolitan College, Middlesbrough College and Leisure Choices - reaching approximately 2,500 people. The "Get In" Project was launched in June, 2005 - providing open workshops in drama, clowning, dance, masks, music and writing.
SHOWS
THE NOT-SO-NORMAL CABARET SHOW
What is normal? Who's normal ...and who wants to be normal anyway?
Disabled contestants take over the Big Brother house...Sex and the City becomes 'Sex and the Toon'...or take a tour round Weeping Willows care home...
Doctors, social workers, MP's, taxi drivers...no-one escapes the razor-sharp wit of Busta Wheels and the Not-So-Normal Crew
Up to an hour of songs, sketches and sit-down comedy to suit all your entertainment needs.
GENES, GENES, GENES!
A song-and-dance extravaganza that explores the effects of scientific advances in genetics.
Set in and around the Sir Oswald Moseley Centre for Reproduction, the charismatic professor Hugh Genics takes the audience on a jolly journey of designer babies, compulsory gene therapy, 'mercy' killings, and lots of other ways to get rid of us...
1 hour, 15 minutes.
Talks and workshops are also available. All fees negotiable.
'Someone edit a showreel and get this on television!' DAIL
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