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Heart 'n' Soul - Music theatre group for young people with learning disabilities. London based but also tours. Includes details of Beautiful Octopus Club, Squidz club, music, art and diary.
Kaleidoscope Theatre - A pioneering company and registered charity, some of whose members happen to have Down's Syndrome. Based in Shropshire.
Mind The Gap - Drama club, music arc and youth theatre group for teenagers with learning disability. Includes details of apprenticeship programme, national tour, profiles and contact interface for personnel, at two centres in Bradford and Keighley. [requires Flash]
Oily Cart - Interactive theatre for under fives and young people with learning difficulties, tours to schools, nurseries and arts venues. London based.
The Orpheus Centre - A residential performing arts centre for young disabled artists founded by Richard Stilgoe. Offering courses in various disciplines of performing arts and apprenticeships in life skills. Godstone, Surrey.
Hijinx Theatre Company - Professional theatre company touring plays to communities and people with learning disabilities, plus details of Odyssey Theatre, a participatory theatre group. Cardiff based.
The Museums & Galleries Disability Association (MAGDA) - Improving access to UK museums and galleries for people with disabilities. Best practice, forum for museum and gallery professionals, resources and links.
New Breed Theatre Company - Manchester performing theatre company with a workshop programme aimed at both experienced and inexperienced disabled people. News, programme, past productions, links and downloads.
Birds of Paradise Theatre Company - Glasgow theatre company training physically disabled actors and producing fully integrated performances. Flash required, includes production clips.
Spare Tyre Theatre Company - Originally a feminist theatre company and now working with disadvantaged youth and people with learning disabilities. London based.
Graeae Theatre Company - Company of people with physical and sensory impairments, based in London but tours widely. Artistic policy, productions, workshops and mailing list.
Disabled Access Guide for Theatregoers - London theatre guide including information on audio described and signed performances as well as general access information.
Fingers Crossed Theatre - Integrated company dealing with issues of disability and equality. Biographies and background information. Leeds based.
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Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George bernard Shaw A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Benard Shaw Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory Bremner "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Theatre When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands. -- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Theatre Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with ano I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Theatre Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land Character is what you are in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire. -- Gen. George Theatre "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -- Patricia Sampson [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Theatre "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry Theatre Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -- Albert Einstein Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Theatre "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing. -- 'Doc' Edgerton Theatre In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin Theatre Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Theatre The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. -- Charles Du Bos [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -- Franklin D. 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