Live and Kicking: A Disabled Audience Member Contemplates the Body in the Audience and on the Stage
Bibliographic record
Abstract
As a person who loves live theatre and tries to get to as much of it as is humanly possible, and as a person who happens to be physically disabled (in a wheelchair with cerebral palsy), I have thought plenty about the role of the body – mine and theirs, the audience member and the practically double-jointed, rubber-bodied performer for whom physical risk seems nothing on stage. People notice that the physical reality of live theatre is a dominant force for me: I shriek at the sight of actors wrestling a life-like lizard in front of me in Night of the Iguana at the Tom Patterson Theatre in Stratford; I am astounded at Susan Strohman’s gifts as a choreographer, whether she is teaching folks to do some high stepping in the London production of Oklahoma or shepherding actors and actresses dressed as old ladies and wielding walkers on the Broadway stage of The Producers. For me, one of the perks of live theatre is that it involves real risk to the physical body – theirs, not mine. Granted, some of it – maybe most of it – is illusion, though not as much as in the World Wrestling Federation. Still, actors do fall off stages from time to time; there are often doctors standing in the wings, and, to top it off, they can do what I can’t, sometimes eight shows weekly, and that is at least part of the magic of performance.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".