Performing new lives prison theatre (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2011)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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