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Performing new lives : prison theatre / edited by Jonathan Shailor ; forward by Evelyn Ploumis-Devick.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prison theater--United States.
- Prison theater.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (306 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Performing New Lives draws together some of the most original and innovative programs in contemporary prison theatre. Leading prison theatre directors and practitioners discuss the prison theatre experience first-hand, and offer valuable insights. It is essential reading for drama therapists, theatre artists, prison educators and academics.
- Contents:
- Performing New Lives: Prison Theatre; Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. "To Know My Deed": Finding Salvation through Shakespeare; 3. Rehabilitation Through the Arts at Sing Sing: Drama in the Big House; 4. 59 Places: Dance/Theatre in the Hampshire Jail; 5. Time In: Transforming Identity Inside and Out; 6. The Buckle on the Bible Belt; 7. From the Meanest Creature: Theatre as a Vehicle for Change; 8. Faith, Hope, and "Sweet Love Re-Membered": "Restoration" Theatre in Kansas Prisons; 9. Fabulous Females: Secrets,Stories, and Hope: Guarding and Guiding Girls Beyond the Barbed Wire Fence
- 10. Living with Life: The Theater of Witness as a Model of Healing and Redemption11. Prison Theatre and the Promise of Reintegration; 12. Sculpting Empowerment: Theatre in a Juvenile Facility and Beyond; 13. The Keeper of the Keys; 14. Revisiting Sacred Spaces; 15. The Inmates, the Actors, the Characters, the Audience, and the Poet Are of Imagination All Compact; 16. "Their Minds Transfigured So Together": Imaginative Transformation and Transcendence in A Midsummer Night's Dream; 17. A Conversation with the Authors: Prison Theatre Artists in Dialogue; The Contributors; Subject Index
- Author Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-90535-3
- 0-85700-288-0
- OCLC:
- 711747323
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