In Russia, actors with disabilities unite to produce plays about social exclusion

From AFP:MOSCOW — On a small stage in a rented basement in Moscow, people with Down's Syndrome have become the lead actors in their own dramas.In a country where 85 percent of children born with Down's Syndrome, or trisomy, are still abandoned in boarding schools -- often on the advice of doctors -- this theatre is helping to lessen the sense of isolation they feel."Theatre is my life, I have