The day before Athena Stevens found out she had been nominated for an Olivier award, she was at the doors of a London bus being told by the driver that she could not get on in her electric wheelchair. So when the nomination news came through, her first thought wasn’t celebration or champagne. It was: “I might get an Olivier award , but bus drivers can still refuse me onto buses.”

It is exactly this kind of blunt, unfiltered truth that drives her unflinching memoir, What is Done Cannot be Undone . Because even as Stevens has built a remarkable career as a playwright, performer and public speaker, the everyday grind of navigating a world built to exclude disabled people hasn’t softened. The success, the acclaim, the recognition – none of it shields her from being treated like she

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