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Here are some articles which reviewed or commented on our performances.

Campus News and Views
Reuters St. Louis Campus

The Disability Project

By Charles Schwartz
Q4 2005 Volume 1, Number 3

Reuters St. Louis Campus recently hosted The DisAbility Project, a presentation by the St. Louis-based theatrical ensemble known as That Uppity Theatre Company. Reuters volunteers erected a portable stage, complete with a wheelchair accessible ramp in the cafeteria, and Reuters employees gave the presentation their rapt attention.

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Columbia Daily Tribune

Cautionary tale in St. Louis could sadly happen here, too

By TONY MESSENGER
Published Sunday, November 20, 2005

Lisi Bansen just wanted to get from here to there.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Wheelchair user faced path of resistance
By Jeremy Kohler
11/10/2005

When a woman in a wheelchair was struck and killed by an SUV last week, St. Louis police wondered why she had been riding on busy Delmar Boulevard.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

When is a van more than a van? When it's independence
By Bill McClellan
02/22/2004

There were 11,296 cars stolen in the city of St. Louis last year, and 8,898 were recovered. One of the remaining 2,398 belonged to Stuart Falk.

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St. Louis Business Journal

Andy Wrote A Play

Mark Vittert
March 14, 2003

I believe we have an extraordinary person living among us. Presently, he is living at the Edwardsville campus of the Southern Illinois University... he is a junior there in good standing. He has a double major — theater and political science. And Andy has just written a play.

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St. Louis Jewish Light

Welcome to My World
by Cathy Cohn

More than 300 parents and children at United Hebrew Congregation were recently given an unusual glimpse into life with a disability with some help from a Crown Grant and That Uppity Theatre Company.

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What's Cooking - Post-Dispatch

CHICKEN WINGS WORK WELL FOR GATHERINGS
By Cleora Hughes

Name: Alison Chancellor
Home: Florissant
Occupation: Recent Human Services graduate, St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley

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Suburban Journals - West County Journal

Actors raise students' disability awareness
By Kate Miller
03/02/2003

Students at Ladue Horton Watkins High School saw a performance of The DisAbility Project and brought the theater troop to the school Wednesday to spread awareness about the challenges facing people with disabilities.

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Saint Louis University

Angela Camel
October 17, 2002
NewsNet
"That is so retarded!" "He gave me such a lame excuse!" "She is so ADD!" "Gimp!"

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The Commonspace

Acting Out
Jill Hampton
March 2002

Four years ago, a friend of mine asked me to help her on a documentary shoot. There was this group forming to create theatrical pieces about the "culture of disability." Since I had experience with the deaf and blind communities before, I thought this would be a cool project.

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Arts & Education Council Newsletter "Brush Strokes"

That Uppity Theatre Company
Breaking Down Barriers!
~Sandi Wright
Arts & Education Council
Winter Issue 2002

"Four eyes!" "Gimp!" "That’s a lame excuse." "She is so ADD" "Schitzo!"

These are some of the insensitive and hurtful comments that creep into our vocabulary and are boldly and shamelessly tackled by That Uppity Theatre Company’s DisAbility Project, a St. Louis-based ensemble that is receiving international attention and doing its hometown proud.

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UACC Church Bulletin

Come to The DisAbility Project Performance at Clark School on July 11!
Carol Carolli
March 29, Volume 30, Number 13

Mentor St. Louis and Clark Accelerated Academy invite the members of Union Avenue Christian Church and their friends to a special performance of The DisAbility Project, to be held in the Clark Accelerated Academy gymnasium on Wednesday, July 11, from 1:00 p.m. to approximately 2:00 p.m.

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American Theatre Magazine

We Are Not A Metaphor

A Conversation About Representation

April 2000

From clubs in San Francisco to shopping malls in St. Louis to training programs in Florida and Maine to professional theatres in Los Angeles, Chicago and Providence, the theatre of disability has invigorated America’s cultural landscape. Insisting on the right to access -- as audience members, as performers on stage and crew backstage, and as playwrights, actors and directors -- disabled theatre artists are challenging our assumptions about what disability is and what it means. "Disabled characters shaped by the old cautionary and sentimental models of representation have filled the stage for generations, from the stigmatized Oedipus and Richard III to Tiny Tim, the special child who manifests innocence and goodness in the world," says Victoria Ann Lewis, founder of Other Voices, a program hosted by Los Angeles’s Mark Taper Forum, which for 18 years has been generating plays and performances by disabled theatre artists.

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West End-Clayton Word

Gotta Move: Expanding DisAbility Project travels to local schools
Steve Jennings
March 29, Volume 30, Number 13

Come one, come all! Come see Joan Lipkin and her disAbility Project do the amazing. They change perceptions! They turn conventional wisdom on its head! They prompt people to think in new ways!

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Columbia Daily Tribune

St. Louis dancers to "speak" to the disabled
By STEVE JENNINGS
Special to the Tribune
Sunday, February 25, 2001

Is a dance really a dance if the dancers can't move their legs? What good is that new coffeehouse if you can't get inside? Is romance possible after paralysis?

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The Maneater

Disability Services aims to change perceptions
Web-posted February 23, 2001
Erin Blatzer
Reporter

In an effort to increase the perception of people with impairments as differently abled rather than disabled, MU Disability Services has planned a series of dinners, displays and activities starting next week.

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Jefferson County Leader

Athena should be applauded for disability awareness
By Steve Jennings
Thursday, February 15, 2001

WONDERING WHAT the kids are learning these days? If you're the parent of any of the 800 students at De Soto's Athena Elementary, you might want to take note of a special curriculum that includes a powerful lesson not taught even 10 years ago, a lesson intended to change minds and attitudes.

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