The ONCA 2019 Green Curtain Award went to the show ‘How Disabled Are You?’ by The Queer Historian

2019 Shortlisted Events:

• Bright Raven By HOAX
• How Disabled Are You? By The Queer Historian (WINNER)
• Blue Planet III By Bright Buoy Productions

About the Winner

Created by Tommy aka The Queer Historian, How Disabled Are You? is a show that explores real attitudes towards those who claim benefits and have disabilities that aren’t always visible to the eye.

Tommy asks three disabled people with no performance background to take to the stage and read a script for the first time in front of you, the live audience. What happens when disabled people are stripped of their voice and confronted with opinions filled with pent-up aggression, violence and The Daily Mail?

This show isn’t for their community, it’s an education for those who sit outside it.

Fascinated by history and society that surrounds him, Tommy is a live artist who brings a voice to unheard stories using video, his love of pop music and magic to create reactionary theatre.

About the Green Curtain Award

The ONCA Green Curtain Award goes to the Brighton Fringe project that best manifests ONCA’s mission of supporting artists and audiences to engage with environmental and social challenges.