Hi Everybody,
A friend of mine, Richard Holicky author of "Roll Models" (which,
incidentally, is available for free through the Christopher Reeve Foundation
web
site) is looking for people who are living on wheels to participate in his
latest project. Read on if your interested.
"The Wheelchair Monologues"
Welcome to the Wheelchair Monologues. Give AB's a glimpse into your
deepest fantasies, fears and frustrations. Here's your chance to give voice to
all those fears, joys, demons and worlds hidden -- bathroom, bedroom,
workplace, public place play place, inner place, past, future and more. Here's
your
five to ten minutes to tell non-disabled people what they need to know -- what
YOU want them to know -- about your life with paralysis.
What are their biggest misunderstandings? Their biggest misconceptions?
What are the hardest things for you to deal with? What about medical
professionals or people with new injuries? What do you think they need to know?
What are
the most important lessons you've learned? The hardest? The biggest
surprises? If you could spend one day out of the chair, how would you spend it?
The Wheelchair Monologues will be delivered by a variety of people -
young and old, women and men, rich and poor, educated and not, content and
angry -
revealing their realities and laying to waste some common assumptions about
life on wheels. The monologues will create a series of concentric circles
rippling away from the individual and into the larger society and culture.
The Monologues are intended to be witty, irreverent, compassionate and
wise study not about anger, venting or negativity but rather about education,
play, catharsis, information, validation, mythbusting, and above all positive
strength and will.
Talk about your life, on tape, for use in a possible book, stage
presentation or DVD. Here's your chance to offer the Truth About Life On Wheels:
- What It Is
- What It's Not
- What the Genuine Struggles Actually Are
Please look over and briefly answer the questions below. I will review all
the responses and from them choose a variety of people for more detailed
interviews, which will be combined with other comments / responses to create a
series
of composite monologues for presentation, either in print form or as a staged
or taped production.
Wheelchair 101: The Short
Course
- What are the things non-disabled people need to know about life
with paralysis?
- What are their greatest misunderstandings and misconceptions?
- What are the questions you wish people would ask but never do?
- What are the hardest things for you to deal with?
- What do medical professionals (doctors, nurses, therapists) need to
know?
- What are the most important things you learned from living on
wheels?
- What were you greatest misunderstandings and biggest surprises
about paralysis and disability?
- What were the hardest lessons you learned?
- What are the most important?
- If you could spend one day out of the chair, how would you spend it?
Cheers, Richard Holicky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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