All the world’s their stage
In a dark rehearsal space, three actors run lines. “Are you OK with the word disability?” starts Simon Laherty. “I don’t think it describes me,” Sarah Mainwaring retorts in a steady voice. The third actor, Scott Price, strokes his beard, then puts a finger in his hot chocolate and absentmindedly sucks it. “Look, I am a disabled person,” he says, his words racing. “I am proud, and I don’t want to have to weave my way around language.”
The trio are members of the internationally lauded, Geelong, Australia-based Back to Back Theatre, an ensemble casts a wry and acute glance at the slave labour forced on people with learning disabilities – and asks what the rise of artificial intelligence will mean for the neurotypical
