Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration
Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration

Author: Ashley E. Lucas

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-09-03

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1472511700

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Obscured behind concrete and razor wire, the lives of the incarcerated remain hidden from public view. Inside the walls, imprisoned people all over the world stage theatrical productions that enable them to assert their humanity and capabilities. Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration offers a uniquely international account and exploration of prison theatre. By discussing a range of performance practices tied to incarceration, this book examines the ways in which arts practitioners and imprisoned people use theatre as a means to build communities, attain professional skills, create social change, and maintain hope. Ashley Lucas's writing offers a distinctive blend of storytelling, performance analysis, travelogue, and personal experience as the child of an incarcerated father. Distinct examples of theatre performed in prisons are explored throughout the main text and also in a section of Critical Perspectives by international scholars and practitioners.

Performing New Lives
Performing New Lives

Author: Jonathan Shailor

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1849058237

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This book will provide valuable reading for drama therapists, theatre artists, probation workers, prison educators, psychologists, and anyone else interested in the role of the performing arts in criminal justice. --Book Jacket.

Theatre and Prison
Theatre and Prison

Author: Caoimhe McAvinchey

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-03-17

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 0230344682

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Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Using examples from popular culture, dramatic texts and applied theatre it analyses how theatre and performance reveals economies of punishment, affects penal reform and both challenges and participates in narratives of reformation.

Prison Theatre
Prison Theatre

Author: James Thompson

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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Prison Theatre offers a variety of perspectives on a range of practical and theoretical approaches to the use of drama and theatre in prisons and probation but also in secure settings including the use of creative processes to examine the roots of offending behaviour and in building prisoners' confidence, self-esteem and communication skills.

Playing for Time Theatre Company
Playing for Time Theatre Company

Author: Annie McKean

Publisher: Intellect (UK)

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781783209514

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Based on more than a decade of practice-based research in prisons across the UK, 'Playing for Time Theatre Company' presents the reader with a rich and invaluable resource for using theatre as an intervention in, transformation, and rehabilitation of the lives of incarcerated people. The book analyses and reflects upon theatre productions staged in HMP Winchester, a medium-security prison, among other sites. As a result of these experiences, McKean has developed a unique model of practice in which undergraduate students work alongside prisoners, developing productions and leading workshops. The work draws on diverse methodologies and approaches, from community theatre practices to forensic psychology and criminology, performance studies to critical theory.

Captive Audience
Captive Audience

Author: Thomas Fahy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-03

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1135888957

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This all-new collection examines the social, gendered, ethnic, and cultural problems of incarceration as explored in contemporary theatre.

Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration
Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration

Author: Ashley E. Lucas

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-09-03

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1408185911

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Obscured behind concrete and razor wire, the lives of the incarcerated remain hidden from public view. Inside the walls, imprisoned people all over the world stage theatrical productions that enable them to assert their humanity and capabilities. Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration offers a uniquely international account and exploration of prison theatre. By discussing a range of performance practices tied to incarceration, this book examines the ways in which arts practitioners and imprisoned people use theatre as a means to build communities, attain professional skills, create social change, and maintain hope. Ashley Lucas's writing offers a distinctive blend of storytelling, performance analysis, travelogue, and personal experience as the child of an incarcerated father. Distinct examples of theatre performed in prisons are explored throughout the main text and also in a section of Critical Perspectives by international scholars and practitioners.

Prison Shakespeare
Prison Shakespeare

Author: Rob Pensalfini

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-26

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1137450215

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This book explores the development of the global phenomenon of Prison Shakespeare, from its emergence in the 1980s to the present day. It provides a succinct history of the phenomenon and its spread before going on to explore one case study the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble's (Australia) Shakespeare Prison Project in detail. The book then analyses the phenomenon from a number of perspectives, and evaluates a number of claims made about the outcomes of such programs, particularly as they relate to offender health and behaviour. Unlike previous works on the topic, which are largely individual case studies, this book focuses not only on Prison Shakespeare's impact on the prisoners who directly participate, but also on prison culture and on broader social attitudes towards both prisoners and Shakespeare.

Theatre in the Solovki Prison Camp
Theatre in the Solovki Prison Camp

Author: Natalia Kuziakina

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-21

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1134354290

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First Published in 1996. The Russian Theatre Archive makes available in English the best avantgarde plays, from the pre-Revolutionary period to the present day. It features monographs on major playwrights and theatre directors, introductions to previously unknown works, and studies of the main artistic groups and periods. Plays are presented in performing edition translations, including (where appropriate) musical scores, and instructions for music and dance. Whenever possible the translated texts will be accompanied by videotapes of performances of plays in the original language. Prison camp theatre is a theme justified by actual life, even though the marriage of such concepts as 'theatre' and 'prison camp' may appear, to the ordinary mind, preposterous.

Performing Arts in Prisons
Performing Arts in Prisons

Author: Michael Balfour

Publisher: Intellect Books

Published: 2019-07-15

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1789380162

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Across the world, performing arts programmes are increasing in number, scope and professionalism. They attract increasing academic and media attention. Theoretical and applied research, organizational evaluation reports, documentary films and journalism are detailing prison arts and creating recognition that this body of work is becoming a valued part of the correctional enterprise. There is a growing body of evidence that suggests music, theatre, poetry and dance can contribute to prisoner wellbeing, management, rehabilitation and reintegration. Performing Arts in Prisons: Creative Perspectives explores prison arts in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Chile, and creates a new framework for understanding its practices.