This article examines the COVID-era shift in the disability politics of sensory-theatre artists in the United Kingdom who create work for neurodiverse young audiences, arguing that the pandemic pushed them toward a more expansive and overtly political understanding of disability. I examine the work of three companies – Oily Cart (London), Frozen Light (Norwich) and Spectra (Birmingham) – who adjusted their practices to embrace their audiences’ shifting access needs, including those in caregiving roles. These changes move sensory theatre into a more politicized realm, echoing calls from crip studies scholars and disability justice activists to reimagine disability as a relational category from which solidarity can arise that does not hinge entirely on medical diagnosis. These artists’ renewed commitments to relational access provide lessons for performing artists and audiences navigating how to care for one another through the massive death and disablement of the ongoing pandemic.

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“严重”感官剧场：在英国新冠疫情封锁期间建立关系性残疾政治


本文探讨了英国感官戏剧艺术家在残疾政治方面在新冠病毒时代的转变，他们为神经多样化的年轻观众创作作品，认为这场流行病促使他们对残疾有了更广泛和公开的政治理解。我研究了三个公司的工作——Oily Cart（伦敦）、Frozen Light（诺维奇）和 Spectra（伯明翰）——它们调整了自己的做法，以适应受众不断变化的访问需求，包括护理人员的需求。这些变化将感官剧场推向了一个更加政治化的领域，呼应了残疾人研究学者和残疾正义活动家的呼吁，将残疾重新想象为一个关系类别，从中可以产生团结，而并不完全取决于医疗诊断。这些艺术家对关系访问的重新承诺为表演艺术家和观众提供了教训，帮助他们在当前流行病造成的大规模死亡和残疾中如何互相照顾。