"McCaffrey's research makes an original contribution to this rapidly expanding field, balancing his passion for the topic with deeply considered scholarship, revealing a form of theatre that is aesthetically innovative, plays with the boundaries of theatrical representation, is simultaneously beautiful and disturbing, and is located at the cutting edge of contemporary performance practice." - David ODonnell, Victoria University of Wellington
"Overall, the book gives voice to many of the questions that need to be asked in relation to the development of intellectual disability theatre. It does not pretend to offer answers to these questions but problematises them in a way that becomes essential reading for anyone planning to do further work in this area in the future, whether theatrical or theoretical." - Paul McNamara, University of Limerick, Ireland
"This is a powerful contribution to scholarship in learning-disability theatre, offering a critical approach to understandings of what is at stake and for whom practitioners, critics, theorists and audiences further developing the field of learning-disability performance." - Margaret Ames, Aberystwyth University, Wales, Theatre Research International