Carcerality, theatre, rights. Issue 3 (3rd July 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Woodland, Sarah; Hazou, Rand
• Is Part Of: Research in drama education. Volume 26:Issue 3(2021)
• Page Start: 385
• Page End: 405
• Publication Date: 2021-07-03
• Subjects: Carcerality -- theatre -- rights -- prison theatre -- applied theatre; Drama in education -- Periodicals; Drama -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 792.071
• DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2021.1944805
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1356-9783

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Threatened with ever-increasing levels of surveillance and confinement, this special issue attempts to extend the discussion of Prison Theatre to consider 'carcerality' as a pervasive neoliberal strategy. The issue aims to steer the discussion away from considerations of utility and the aesthetics of redemption, towards understandings of the arts in carceral spaces as a fundamental human right. What role can theatre and performance play in highlighting the rights of those experiencing state-sponsored control, confinement and exclusion? And what role can theatre and performance play in challenging the exclusionary structures of carcerality by enhancing freedoms, liberty and inclusion?