Illusion Theater brings its award-winning original production, Autistic License, offering a look at the complicated world of living with autism. It presents a glimpse of the joys, terrors, rewards and struggles of raising a child in a world that has far too many opinions on what is “normal.”
Playwright Stacey Dinner-Levin explains her inspiration for writing Autistic License, “This play is based upon our experience of raising a child with autism – the things that happened in our family that were tragic, surreal and funny. This is the kind of stuff you can’t make up! Nobody sees what goes on in families with a child living with a disability. To me theater was the perfect vehicle to tell this story and to give voice to all families living with disability. I really wanted to open the doors, take down the walls of our house and say, ‘Come in, take a good look, see this for what it is: the struggle of my life, along with the beauty and the joy.’”
