| Description |
1 online resource (300 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Evelyn Ploumis-Devick -- "To know my deed": finding salvation through Shakespeare / Laura Bates -- Rehabilitation through the arts at Sing Sing: drama in the big house / Brent Buell -- 59 places: dance/ theatre in the Hampshire jail / Amie Dowling -- Time in: transforming identity inside and out / Judy Dworin -- The buckle on the Bible belt / Jodi Jinks -- From the meanest creature: theatre as a vehicle for change / Sharon Paquette Lajoie -- Faith, hope, and "sweet love re-membered": "restoration" theatre in Kansas prisons / John McCabe-Juhnke -- Fabulous females: secrets, stories, and hope: guarding and guiding girls beyond the barbed wire fence / Meade Palidofsky -- Living with life: the theatre of witness as a model of healing and redemption / Teya Sepinuck -- Prison theatre and the promise of reintegration / Jonathan Shailor -- Sculpting empowerment: theatre in a juvenile facility and beyond / Julia Taylor -- The keeper of the keys / Curt L. Tofteland -- Revisiting sacred spaces / Jean Trounstine -- The inmates, the actors, the characters, the audience, and the poet are of imagination all compact / Agnes Wilcox -- "Their minds transfigured so together": imaginative transformation and transcendence in A midsummer night's dream / Elizabeth Charlebois -- A conversation with the authors: prison theatre artists in dialogue. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Prison theater -- United States.
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Prison theater. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Shailor, Jonathan.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Performing new lives. London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2011 9781849058230 (DLC) 2010016836 (OCoLC)610466380 |
| ISBN |
9780857002884 (electronic book) |
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0857002880 (electronic book) |
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9781849058230 |
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1849058237 |
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