Hartblay: I Was Never Alone (Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom)

I Was Never Alone or Oporniki presents an original ethnographicstage play, based on fieldwork conducted in Russiawith adults with disabilities. The core of the work is the scriptof the play itself, which is accompanied by a description ofthe script development process, from the research in the fieldto rehearsals for public performances. In a supporting essay,the author argues that both ethnography and theatre can beunderstood as designs for being together in unusual ways,and that both practices can be deepened by recognizing thevibrant social impact of interdependency animated by vulnerability,as identified by disability theorists and activists.