Post by typhoon on Apr 16, 2010 23:21:09 GMT
The play "No Escape" based on the Ryan Report is currently running in the Abbey/Theatre. If you happen to have a disability or a friend that has one then you will not be able to see the play as there is no lift down to the bowels of the Abbey, our National Theatre, to the Peacock.
What is it about the Artistic community of which I am allegedly one of it's members that they support a theatre that discriminates against people with disabilities.
It's simply not good enough that a group of people in Irish society who are already marginalised should be further pushed to the very margins of a society that treats them as second class citizens.
What's wrong with us as a nation that we tolerate discrimination against our own people. Bear in mind that disability is not the preserve of people who are already disabled.
This is discrimination against people who use wheelchairs. When a picket was mounted on the Abbey/Peacock on opening night the so called great and the good of Irish Society, Actors, journalists etc just walked on by. One can only hope none of these people ever end up in a wheelchair or have difficulty in walking. If they do, their days of being able to go the the theatre are finished.
Will we just sit back and let it happen or are you prepared to do something to end this particular form of abuse?
What is it about the Artistic community of which I am allegedly one of it's members that they support a theatre that discriminates against people with disabilities.
It's simply not good enough that a group of people in Irish society who are already marginalised should be further pushed to the very margins of a society that treats them as second class citizens.
What's wrong with us as a nation that we tolerate discrimination against our own people. Bear in mind that disability is not the preserve of people who are already disabled.
This is discrimination against people who use wheelchairs. When a picket was mounted on the Abbey/Peacock on opening night the so called great and the good of Irish Society, Actors, journalists etc just walked on by. One can only hope none of these people ever end up in a wheelchair or have difficulty in walking. If they do, their days of being able to go the the theatre are finished.
Will we just sit back and let it happen or are you prepared to do something to end this particular form of abuse?
