This chapter considers the value of disabled theatre in terms of the tension between the difficulties and intransigence of physical and cognitive impairment and the empowerment afforded to disabled people in theatrical performance. It refers to the work of Dokumaci on the ‘affordances’ in an ableist world created by disabled people and goes on to examine the work of Different Light Theatre in creating such affordances in theatrical performance and academic spaces. Performances and presentations by Different Light in and around the Performance Philosophy Problems conference (Helsinki 2022) are analysed to indicate the uneasy place of the disabled performers within theatrical and academic discourses but equally indicating the value of their (mediated) presence to all concerned in questioning fundamental principles of representation. The chapter concludes with a consideration of the participation of Different Light artist Angie Douglas whose first performance was at the ADSA conference in Auckland in 2022. It attempts to negotiate the complexities of the value to her of this opportunity and the physical and emotional discomfort that underlay her experience. This highlights the difficulties of affording access and empowerment to disabled artists within the context of the disciplinary mechanisms and ableist assumptions of performance and its reception.