Edinburgh Fringe - If These Spasms Could Speak

What do you think of when you meet a disabled person? Do you stare or look away? What questions would you like to ask, but are too afraid to voice?

Challenging your perceptions from the outset, Robert Softley crawls, climbs and jumps up onto the stage - no wheelchair in sight. You may double take. Surely such behaviour, for someone with Cerebral Palsy, isn't safe?

Softley describes his disability and how it has affected him. His personal account of experiences growing up and entering adult life are illuminating. His accounts explain and educate, laced with his high heeled humour, enabling you to laugh along the way.

In addition to his own personal experiences, Softley has used the stories of other disabled people of how they feel about their bodies to provide further insight. The openness of each account impresses, holding your attention as questions you didn't know you had are answered with completely unexpected transparency.

No subject is taboo. Family, friendships, eating, drinking, going for a run, disciplining wayward adolescents and even sex are all covered as part of this intimate presentation of how disabled people experience life and their interaction with our disabling society around them.

The show is not a training programme concerning the lives of disabled people, nor is it a lecture about disability, equality or the law. Each story told is personal, intimate and, although serious in subject matter, has the power to make you laugh.

Go along, and bring those questions you were too afraid to ask.

If These Spasms Could Speak is on at the Pleasance Courtyard at 17.45.  

For more information or to book tickets click here.  

***STOP PRESS***

Softley has just announced via facebook that the show will be touring Scotland and then moving to Brazil (all following the fringe of course)

For more info visit http://www.ifthesespasmscouldspeak.com/