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Unruly Rhetorics: Protest, Persuasion, and Publics: Jonathan Alexander, Susan C. Jarratt, and Nancy Welch, eds. More specifically, editors Jonathan Alexander, Susan Jarratt, and Nancy Welch center unruliness and its interventional forms as the guiding focus of this collection. The multifaceted essays Alexander, Jarratt, and Welch have compiled in I Unruly Rhetorics i comprise a text that should be a companion to many graduate survey courses in the history of contemporary rhetorics, and several of the collection's chapters would be right at home in an upper-level undergraduate persuasive writing course or a graduate public rhetorics course. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the work done at the Firebird Theatre in Bristol, England with disabled actors, which include programs utilizing workshops, performers, and non-disabled theater students. The author describes the theater's mission statement which includes making connections with their audiences in order to produce theatrical works that tell stories that will communicate ideas that stay with the audiences. The author analyzes the way the theater group works on the play "Doctor Faustus" to demonstrate the theater's way of working.