Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 7:00 P.M.
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
The Hal Todd Theatre (Hugh Gillis Hall 103)
Free and open to the public
Sponsored by the Accessibility Lab at Yahoo!, Inc.
The Califia Performance Collective and the Departments of Television, Radio, Film, & Theatre and Communication Studies at SJSU are proud to present this performance by memoirist and performance artist Terry Galloway.
Not quite blind as a bat, but definitely deaf as a doornail, Terry Galloway is the modern medical accident who’s asking tough questions in Out All Night and Lost My Shoes, one of the foundational texts in the history of disability performance. It’s also one hour of pure, energetic theater that mixes poetry, storytelling, stand- up, New Vaudeville and plain old corny vaudeville in a charged, moving celebration of life – hers and that of all oddballs.
Galloway, the author of the memoir Mean Little deaf Queer, was one of the founding members of Esther’s Follies, a legendary 6th Street cabaret in Austin Texas; co-founder of the Mickee Faust Club a “community theater for the weird community” in Tallahassee Florida; and the founder of Actual Lives, workshops in writing and performance for people with disabilities in Texas and Florida. She’s trotted all over the globe as a solo performer and as part of New York’s P.S. (Performance Space) 122’s Field Trips.
“Not quite blind as a bat but definitely deaf as a doornail, Galloway is a modern medical accident who makes wild sport of her own disabilities in defense of the defenseless.’”–Victory Garden’s Theatre
“…an adroit mix of dark humor, confession.” – San Francisco Examiner
“She’s deaf. She’s queer. She’s a woman. And from the minute she begins the audience’s safe, dark anonymity is threatened.” – Chicago Outlines
For more information on Terry Galloway, visit her website at www.meanlittledeafqueer.com.
