Shakespeare inside: the Bard behind bars
by ebrary, Inc, Scott-Douglass, Amy
fromShakespeare now!
Amy Scott Douglas provides a behind the scenes insight into Shakespeare's place in today's society, particularly in major institutions such as the military, prisons and schools.
This book goes behind the scenes in prisons to reveal Shakespeare at work. Based upon the experience of watching prison-yard rehearsals and performances, and interviewing inmates, program directors, and wardens, this text offers a record of personal experiences from inmates who …
Shakespeare inside: the Bard behind bars
by ProQuest (Firm), Scott-Douglass, Amy
fromShakespeare now!
Amy Scott-Douglass provides a behind the scenes insight into Shakespeare's place in today's society, particularly in major institutions such as the military, prisons and schools.
Shakespeare Inside goes behind the scenes to reveal Shakespeare at work in the most decisive institutional context of our time - in prisons. Based upon the author's experience of watching prison yard rehearsals and performances, and interviewing inmates, program directors, and w…
Rhodessa Jones founded and still directs the Medea Project, a theater program for incarcerated women. Jones believes that by engaging incarcerated women in the process of developing and staging dramatic works based on their own stories, she can push them toward tapping into thei…
""This ain't no Dreamgirls,"" Rhodessa Jones warns participants in the Medea Project, the theater program for incarcerated women that she founded and directs. Her expectations are grounded in reality, tempered, for example, by the fact that women are the fastest growing populati…
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