Performing New Lives (eBook, ePUB)

Prison Theatre
Redaktion: Shailor, Jonathan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 into its role, function, and implementation.

A wide range of prison theatre initiatives are discussed, from long-running, high-profile programs such as Curt Tofteland's "Shakespeare Behind Bars" in LaGrange, Kentucky, to fledgling efforts like Jodi Jinks' "ArtsAloud" project in Austin, Texas. The book offers unique insights into the many dimensions of the prison theatre experience, including: negotiating the rules and restrictions of the prison environment; establishing trust, teaching performance skills and managing crises; building relationships and dealing with conflicts; and negotiating public performances and public perceptions. Excerpts of interviews with inmates, and a conversation between practitioners in the final chapter, reveal the impact that prison theatre programs have on the performers themselves, as well as audience members, and the wider community.

Exploring prison theatre processes and theory with insights into how it works in practice, and how to replicate it, this book is essential reading for drama therapists, theatre artists, and prison educators, as well as academics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857002884
• Artikelnr.: 38399295

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Shailor is a Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. He has been facilitating the "theatre of empowerment" in prisons, schools and other settings for over 15 years, and is the founder and director of The Shakespeare Prison Project, which originated at Racine Correctional Institution in 2004. Inmates who participate in the project engage in a nine-month process of training, rehearsal and reflection that culminates in multiple performances of a Shakespeare play before prison and public audiences. Jonathan resides in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments. Foreword by Evelyn Ploumis-Devick. 1. Introduction. Jonathan Shailor
University of Wisconsin-Parkside. 2. "To Know My Deed": Finding Salvation Through Shakespeare. Laura Bates
Indiana State University. 3. Rehabilitation Through the Arts at Sing Sing: Drama in the Big House. Brent Buell
Rehabilitation Through the Arts. 4. 59 Places: Dance/Theatre in the Hampshire Jail. Amie Dowling
University of San Francisco. 5. Time In: Transforming Identity Inside and Out. Judy Dworin
Trinity College
Connecticut. 6. The Buckle on the Bible Belt. Jodi Jinks
ArtsAloud and Rude Mechanicals. 7. From the Meanest Creature: Theatre as a Vehicle for Change. Sharon Lajoie
freelance theatre artist and teacher. 8. Faith
Hope
and "Sweet Love Re-Membered": "Restoration" Theatre in Kansas Prisons. John McCabe-Juhnke
Bethel College
Kansas. 9. Fabulous Females: Secrets
Stories
and Hope: Guarding and Guiding Girls Beyond the Barbed Wire Fence. Meade Palidofsky
Storycatchers Theatre
Chicago. 10. Living with Life: The Theatre of Witness as a Model of Healing and Redemption. Teya Sepinuck
The Theatre of Witness. 11. Prison Theatre and the Promise of Reintegration. Jonathan Shailor. 12. Sculpting Empowerment: Theatre in a Juvenile Facility and Beyond. Julia Taylor
Prison Creative Arts. 13. The Keeper of the Keys. Curt L. Tofteland
Shakespeare Behind Bars. 14. Revisiting Sacred Spaces. Jean Trounstine
Middlesex Community College. 15. The Inmates
the Actors
the Characters
the Audience
and the Poet Are of Imagination All Compact. Agnes Wilcox
Prison Performing Arts. 16. "Their Minds Transfigured So Together": Imaginative Transformation and Transcendence in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Elizabeth Charlebois
St. Mary's College of Maryland. 17. A Conversation with the Authors: Prison Theatre Artists in Dialogue. The Contributors. Subject Index. Author Index.