News: Disability Arts Online announces its first Artistic Director

Review: Cured by Laurence Clark

Cured is a new play written by comedian, Laurence Clark, directed by the award-winning disabled-led company Birds of Paradise and produced in association with Liverpool Royal Court, which is touring theatres in England until 27 June. Sonali Shah finds it a rollicking romp featuring young disabled people behaving badly on a religious pilgrimage. Read by Kate Stephens. Full article here. [https://disabilityarts.online/magazine/reviews/cured-flipping-two-fingers-at-religion-and-medicines-attempts-to-fix-disabled-people/]

Review: Peaks of Imperfection

Peaks of Imperfection presented the works of 21 artists from Submit to Love Studios at the Art House in Bethnal Green 24-30th April. The works span painting, ceramics, sculpture, embroidery, drawing, stitchwork, poetry and music. The exhibition’s title comes from a painting of the same name by the exhibiting Submit to Love Artist, Graham Naylor. Mark Sheerin traverses this varied landscape. Read the full article here. [https://disabilityarts.online/magazine/reviews/submit-to-love-studios-peaks-of-imperfection-full-of-personal-summits/]

News: Disability Arts Online announces its first Artistic Director

Disability Arts Online (DAO) has announced the appointment of disabled and neurodivergent theatre-maker, playwright and social justice activist, Kate Lovell, as its first Artistic Director. Read by Kate Stephens.

Review: We Might Regret This Series 2

We Might Regret This, written and starring disabled talent, Kyla Harris returns for a second series to the BBC. Shivam Chowdhary finds that its exploration of the relationship between disability and visibility in contemporary culture is both precise and full of laughs. Read the article here. [https://disabilityarts.online/magazine/reviews/we-might-regret-this-series-2-painfully-accurate-satire-of-the-industry-of-inclusion/]

Opinion: The haunting of chronic illness in BBC sitcom, Ghosts

Writer Matt Alton reappraises BBC sitcom, Ghosts, which ran from 2019-2023, which follows a young couple who inherit a haunted estate. He finds eerie parallels between the ghosts being housebound, longing for their past lives and the groundhog-day nature of their existence, and the lived experience of chronic illness. Read the article here. [https://disabilityarts.online/magazine/opinion/the-haunting-of-chronic-illness-the-allegory-for-ill-health-in-bbc-sitcom-ghosts/]