Ashley E. Lucas

Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472511706
• Artikelnr.: 60034723

Autorenporträt

Ashley Lucas is Associate Professor of Theatre and Drama at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Director of the Prison Creative Arts Project. She and Jodie Lawston co-edited the book Razor Wire Women: Prisoners, Scholars, Artists, and Activists (SUNY Press 2011), and they coauthor a blog by the same name. Lucas also wrote the play Doin' Time: Through the Visiting Glass, which she has performed as a one-woman show since 2004.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Heather Ann Thompson (University of Michigan, USA)
Acknowledgments
Part I Prison Theatre: Strategies for a Better Life
Introduction: Journeys in Prison Theatre
1 Theatre as a Strategy for Community Building
2 Theatre as a Strategy for Professionalization
3 Theatre as a Strategy for Social Change
4 Theatre as a Strategy for Hope
Conclusion: Glorious Beings Live Here
Part II Critical Perspectives
5 Dancing in the Wings: Does Prison Theatre Offer a Radical Containment or
a Pedagogy of Utopia? Selina Busby (The Royal Central School of Speech and
Drama , UK)
6 "The Actors Have All the Power": Angola's Life of Jesus Christ Stephanie
Gaskill (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA)
7 Citizens Theatre, Scotland, Facilitates Changes in Life Directions
through Creative Arts Mediums Neil Packham and Elly Goodman, (Citizens
Theatre, UK)
8 Bad Girls, Monsters, and Chicks in Chains: Clean Break Theatre Company's
Disruption of Representations of Women, Crime, and Incarceration Caoimhe
McAvinchey, (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Notes
Selected Bibliography on Prison Theatre
Selected List of Prison Theatre Companies and Programs
Notes on Contributors
Index