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
doaj +4 more sources
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
doaj +3 more sources
Performing Te Whare Tapa Whā: building on cultural rights to decolonise prison theatre practice
Research in Drama Education, 2021 Ngā Pātū Kōrero: Walls That Talk (2019) is a documentary theatre production staged by incarcerated men at Unit 8 Te Piriti at Auckland Prison in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Pedro Ilgenfritz +2 more
exaly +2 more sources
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
doaj +2 more sources
Possible fictions: The testimony of applied performance with women in prisons in England and Brazil. [PDF]
, 2007 PhDThis thesis is based on a practice based research project with women in prison led by Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and myself. The project, Staging Human Rights II, took place in two prisons in England, HMP Highpoint and HMP and YOI Bullwood Hall, and ...
McAvinchey, Caoimhe
core +4 more sources
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
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
“A Sea Change into Something Rich and Strange.” Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed: A Metatextual Approach [PDF]
Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica, 2023 Ever since it was published, Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed (2016) has been scrutinized for its peculiar engagements with the Shakespearean pre-text at the cross-section of various discourses, from literary and media studies, through drama pedagogy, even ...
Enikő Pál, Judit Pieldner
doaj +1 more source
Sen nocy letniej Zapalonych.org w Zakładzie Karnym w Opolu Lubelskim
Pamiętnik Teatralny, 2019 Captain Łukasz Pruchniak, correctional educator of the Opole Lubelskie Penitentiary talks about the work of inmates, officers and Lublin artists on the production of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night's Dream as part of the Zapaleni.org project, which he ...
Łukasz Pruchniak
doaj +1 more source