Dark Disabled Stories NYC Reviews and Tickets
Member Reviews (29)
See it if Autobiographical vignettes from their disabled queer people of color lives looking for emotional/sexual connections in an inaccessible world
Don't see it if Challenging humor about intersectional lives with disabilities, explicit queer sex talk, collection of stories instead of one plot. Read more
See it if You are interested in first person accounts of navigating the world with a disability. Appreciate accessibility in theatre.
Don't see it if Are offended by frank talk about bodily functions, sexuality, awkward situations. Read more
See it if you want to see caring stories that will make you laugh and then want to cry. Do not miss this.
Don't see it if you are homophobic. If that's the case screw you.
See it if you love shows that open you up on a personal level to the human complexities faced by being gay and disabled in NYC. So creative!
Don't see it if Not for you if you are prudish about salty language, some graphic sex descriptions, and negative (and hilarious) comments about the MTA.
See it if You like solo-ish shows where the performers recant dark stories from their past.
Don't see it if You want a structured play. Read more
See it if you are interested in seeing the world from the perspective of horny gay disabled men in NYC.
Don't see it if you do not like rather graphic discussion of sex. Read more
See it if You want a play w/heart makes u laugh & entertains while making u think about disabled people navigating life in an inaccessible world.
Don't see it if You prefer linear plot structure. You don’t enjoy plays dealing w/ disabled or queer people. You’re offended by explicit sexual descriptions Read more
See it if You like humor & real stories. Everyone should see this to understand the extent that this world is set up for the able-bodied.
Don't see it if These are vignettes around several themes but is not a narrative linear story, if that is what you are looking for. Read more
Critic Reviews (11)
CRITIC’S PICK: "Haddad - he will change the way you think about disability — and prompt you to think of accessibility as something that can deepen a dramatic experience when it’s built into the architecture of the piece."
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"The show does feel a bit short. Is it greedy to want a few more vignettes to let us spend more time with these dynamic performers? Here’s hoping these Stories are just Haddad’s first volume."
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“Jordan Fein’s skillful direction balances the laughter with a well-paced dosing of the grim truth — New York City, like the world, is not built for disabled people. Media often represents the disabled experience as monolithic, but ‘Dark Disabled Stories’ includes a variety of lenses.”
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" 'Dark Disabled Stories' offers a model of how to do theater better, in ways that are more accommodating, accessible, and accepting of all people and bodies."
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“You can check any sentimental notions at the door of this eye-opening, often hilarious, and sometimes scathing exercise…This collection of first-person accounts features surtitles, sign language by the Deaf actor Dickie Hearts, and audio description by Alejandra Ospina, who uses a wheelchair. Although most of Dark Disabled Stories is devoted to Haddad's pitiless stories of navigating the indifferent world of the abled, his co-stars weigh in, too, on everything from taking the subway to picking up a sexual partner; as they make blazingly clear, even the simplest activity can require considerable guts and nerve.”
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"Most of 'Dark Disabled Stories' ultimately centers on people not listening and not recognizing each other's humanity. The show depicts this vividly in a worthwhile 75 minutes in the theatre."
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“Haddad does have a gift for finding the light – the humor – lurking in the ‘dark.’”
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“The play is a compilation of humorous and honest stories about constantly confronting an obstacle, both physical and emotional, in a world not built to accommodate who you are.”
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