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6 August 2010

Teach us to care and not to care

Lisa Hammond gets audiences thinking about disability.

By Gina Allum

The British public, long used to arbitrating on the presence or otherwise of Talent and X Factor, has now been given a say in the devising of a show. Two actors went out on to the streets with a microphone and canvassed opinion on what their forthcoming play should be about, and the resulting performance is the wryly titled No Idea. It should be stated, for the record, that one of the performers, Lisa Hammond, is what the Americans preciously call a “little person”; her partner Rachael Spence is of average height.

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