Jackie Hagan (GB)
What do people with disabilities actually get from their home? At best, hassle-free financial and logistical support that allows them to participate. At worst, official terror, paperwork, a scramble for every single measure - the lasting feeling of being nowhere welcome.
Jackie Hagan, multi-award-winning British performer and writer, has interviewed 80 people living on state support for This is Not a Safe Space. Using poetry, black humour and puppetry, she mixes excerpts from them into a wild stand-up comedy.
Perhaps that's because she knows what it's like to be doubly stigmatised as a person with a disability and a working-class child: she grew up in a state institution, lived through psychiatric hospitals and the madness of bureaucracy. Walk in to an evening that spins you in with its poetically powerful language, shakes you up neatly, and then leaves you with a fresh view of the world. www.jackiehagan.org
Perhaps that's because she knows what it's like to be doubly stigmatised as a person with a disability and a working-class child: she grew up in a state institution, lived through psychiatric hospitals and the madness of bureaucracy. Walk in to an evening that spins you in with its poetically powerful language, shakes you up neatly, and then leaves you with a fresh view of the world. www.jackiehagan.org
