Performing new lives : prison theatre /: prison theatre. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jonathan Shailor ; foreword by Evelyn Ploumis-Devick.
• Other Names: Shailor, Jonathan
• Contents: Performing New Lives: Prison Theatre; Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. "To Know My Deed": Finding Salvation through Shakespeare; 3. Rehabilitation Through the Arts at Sing Sing: Drama in the Big House; 4. 59 Places: Dance/Theatre in the Hampshire Jail; 5. Time In: Transforming Identity Inside and Out; 6. The Buckle on the Bible Belt; 7. From the Meanest Creature: Theatre as a Vehicle for Change; 8. Faith, Hope, and "Sweet Love Re-Membered": "Restoration" Theatre in Kansas Prisons; 9. Fabulous Females: Secrets, Stories, and Hope: Guarding and Guiding Girls Beyond the Barbed Wire Fence. 10. Living with Life: The Theater of Witness as a Model of Healing and Redemption11. Prison Theatre and the Promise of Reintegration; 12. Sculpting Empowerment: Theatre in a Juvenile Facility and Beyond; 13. The Keeper of the Keys; 14. Revisiting Sacred Spaces; 15. The Inmates, the Actors, the Characters, the Audience, and the Poet Are of Imagination All Compact; 16. "Their Minds Transfigured So Together": Imaginative Transformation and Transcendence in A Midsummer Night's Dream; 17. A Conversation with the Authors: Prison Theatre Artists in Dialogue; The Contributors; Subject Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (300 pages)
• Subjects: 365.668; Rehabilitation Of Offenders; Prison theater -- United States; Social Science; Prison theater; United States; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857002884; 0857002880
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.