About This Book
Foreword
Play Script
Cast of Characters
Setting
Time
Portrait I: Vera
Portrait II: Vakas
Portrait III: Alina
Portrait IV: Sergei
Portrait V: Rudak
Portrait VI: Anya
Photos
Ethnographer’s Essay: Rituals of Vulnerability
Introduction
Background
a. Words for Disability
b. Disability in Russia
c. Defining Performance Ethnography
d. Performance Ethnography and/in Anthropology
Staging Disability: Interdependency and Crip Time
Making I Was Never Alone or Oporniki: Origins and Writing Process
Representing Russia on the North American Stage
Making I Was Never Alone or Oporniki: Casting and Rehearsing Access: Disability Theatre in Practice
Conclusion
Afterword
Appendix 1: Performance Ethnography Exercises
Appendix 2: Disability Terminology
Appendix 3: Russian and Soviet Historical References
Appendix 4: Suggestions for Reading this Work in the Classroom
Appendix 5: Prop List and Dramaturgical Note
Appendix 6: An Ethic of Accommodation
Appendix 7: Glossary and Pronunciation of Russian Words
