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Then Barbara Met Alan
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Originally shown on the BBC in march, and now released on Netflix, this biography of the Disability Right’s Movement in the UK, is excellently shown…
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John & Joe Bishop: Life After Deaf
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Life After Deaf focuses on comedian and Doctor Who actor John Bishop and his son Joe, who, at 15, unexpectedly lost his hearing to a…
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Jake Donaldson: Neurotica
★★★ Partially sighted (‘or partially blind depending on how you look at it’) stand-up Jake Donaldson reclaims his disability in the opening moments of his show. It can often be…
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Talking With Harriet Dyer
There was an overwhelming reason Harriet Dyer won the Neurodiversity Representation Award at our ceremony. On the surface Dyer is an accomplished stand-up comic, but their chaotic delivery belies a…
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Rob Madge: My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do?)
★★★★ The conceit of My Son’s a Queer is so inspired it has you from its first moment. We meet Rob, who, with joyous enthusiasm, recounts their childhood as a…
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The Dan Daw Show
★★★★ Seeing disabled people be sexy on stage is rare, it’s even rarer to see queer disabled people being sexy on stage. Beyond that, to be sexy on our own…
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SK Shlomo: Breathe: The Play That Becomes a Rave
★★★★ Beatboxing is a musical artform as accomplished as any other. It hits the ear with the same intensity as a sonata from a piano. SK Shlomo’s very personality comes…
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Antigone: The Musical
★★★★ Antigone: The Musical bills itself as ‘a radical and fun musical retelling of an Ancient Greek myth’. Two of Antigone’s brothers have recently killed each other in battle, one…
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Buzzing Anonymous
★★★★ Megan Rebecca’s play about an ADHD support group is a perfect distillation of the varied lived experiences of neurodiverse people. It’s refreshing to see female voices centred and this…