Amelia Cavallo completes Greyscale and Exeunt’s imaginary reviews series with “a glimpse of what crip utopia could look like”.
Amelia Cavallo

Articles by Amelia Cavallo
30 April 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Our Country’s Good at Theatre Royal Stratford East
25 April - 5 May 2018
By Amelia Cavallo
Ramps on the Moon’s Deaf and disabled-led revision of a classic doesn’t go far enough, writes Amelia Cavallo.
20 October 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • OWE & Fringe
Review: Shoot the Sissy at the Chelsea Theatre
Chelsea Theatre ⋄ 18th and 19th October 2016
By Amelia Cavallo
Power through vulnerability: Amelia Cavallo reviews Nando Messias’ new work at the And What? Queer Arts Festival.
18 October 2016
Features • Opinion
A Note on Rio: Helping Hands, Tough Times
By Amelia Cavallo
A very interesting time to find yourself in Rio: Amelia weighs up the experience of visiting the city this summer with the Cultural Olympiad and Graeae.
10 October 2016
Features • Opinion
I Am Not A Superhuman – So Stop Saying It!
By Amelia Cavallo
Watching the Paralympics, people remark at how amazing athletes are – often for doing exactly what we deter disabled bodies from doing every day.
11 August 2016
Features • Opinion
What is A Superhuman Anyway?
By Amelia Cavallo
A look at the new Channel 4 advert for the Rio Paralympics and the notion of meeting the “superhumans” in their follow-up to the 2012 ad.
27 June 2016
Features • Opinion
Audio Description: Ramps on the Moon
By Amelia Cavallo
Amelia Cavallo has seen initiatives for Deaf and Disabled performers like Ramps on The Moon come and go with little effect, but she’s found plenty of signs to be hopeful in the company’s production of The Government Inspector.
9 May 2016
Features • Opinion
Effortless: The Solid Life of Sugar Water and The Chairs
By Amelia Cavallo
In her latest column Amelia takes note of the successes of two recent disability-led productions.
8 March 2016
Features • Opinion
Column: You Can’t Make This Shit Up
By Amelia Cavallo
On Stevie Wonder at the Grammys and what it means to interact with and react to disability politics and identity.
15 February 2016
Features • Opinion
Column: Wicked Problems – A Response
By Amelia Cavallo
The relationship disability arts has with the mainstream is a tense, but exciting, tug-of-war.
6 January 2016
Features • Opinion
A Place at the Table
By Amelia Cavallo
Should disability arts aim for the “mainstream”?
20 November 2015
Features • Essays • Opinion
What Will We Look Like?
By Amelia Cavallo
Querying quotas: tokenism, the “able” disabled, and “pretty crips”.
28 April 2015
Features
Welcome to Flatland
By Amelia Cavallo
Amelia Cavallo on Extant Theatre’s innovative Flatland, an experiment in haptic theatre.
22 April 2015
Reviews • Performance
Safe Word
New Wimbledon Theatre ⋄ 11th April 2015
By Amelia Cavallo
Awakening the senses.
3 March 2015
Features
Finding Questions
By Amelia Cavallo
Amelia Cavallo on the meaning of diversity and asking “how can we do better?”