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Prison Theatre and an Embodied Aesthetics of Liberation: Exploring the Potentials and Limits
Humanities, 2021 Prison theatre practitioners and scholars often describe the sense of imaginative freedom or “escape” that theatre and drama can facilitate for incarcerated actors, in contrast to the strict regimes of the institution.
Sarah Woodland
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The Letter Cloth: Sensory Modes of the Epistolary in Prison Theatre Practice
Humanities, 2023 In this article, I explore performances of letter writing within the archives of the London-based theatre company Clean Break, who work with justice-experienced women and women at risk.
Molly McPhee
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Initiating Change of People With Criminal Justice Involvement Through Participation in a Drama Project: An Exploratory Study [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2019 IntroductionInnovative and interdisciplinary approaches are needed to improve mental health and psychosocial outcomes of people with criminal justice involvement and their families. Aim of the study was to assess effects of the participation in a theatre
Adrian P. Mundt +7 more
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Mimesis Journal, 2022 In 1988 Armando Punzo, director, playwright and actor, entered the gates of the prison of Volterra to establish Compagnia Della Fortezza, today’s first and most famous theatre experience inside a penitentiary institution.
Rossella Menna
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Shakespeare en prison : le cas d’Avignon
Sillages Critiques, 2022 This essay offers to explore the structural link between three historical counter-spaces : prison, Shakespeare’s Elizabethan public theatre and the Avignon Festival.
Florence March
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Conservare e valorizzare le arti performative nei contesti carcerari
Antropologia e Teatro, 2023 The preservation of intangible cultural heritage responds to the need to prevent it from being forgotten and to ensure its transmission across generations.
Valeria Venturelli
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Lepiej budować mosty niż ściany
Pamiętnik Teatralny, 2019 The text discusses the phenomenon of theatre in prison. It focuses on the diversity of its forms and its dependence on many contexts: social, cultural, geographical, and primarily political, which sometimes have a destructive impact on the examined ...
Magdalena Hasiuk
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Humanities, 2021 Emergency Shakespeare is a collaboratively owned theatre company based in an English prison for men convicted of sexual offences. It is the first permanent theatre company of its kind with this population.
Rowan Mackenzie
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Recenzja książki Magdaleny Hasiuk «Okrutnie dziwna strona świata: Wokół teatru więziennego»
Pamiętnik Teatralny, 2016 The book by Magdalena Hasiuk is the first monograph of Polish prison theatre. The author presents the theatrical work carried on in Polish prisons today against a broad historical background (starting with the gladiator fights, through acts of public ...
Anna Chojnacka
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Performance as Intersectional Resistance: Power, Polyphony and Processes of Abolition
Humanities, 2022 Australia’s brutal carceral-border regime is a colonial system of intertwining systems of oppression that combine the prison-industrial complex and the border-industrial complex.
Omid Tofighian +11 more
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