This multi-disciplinary volume provides a cross-section of the rich variety of programmes of theatre with criminal offenders. It aims to inform debate both in the criminal justice system and in discussions about the role and function of theatre. Topics covered include: working with women prisoners and people with learning difficulties; dramatherapy with sex offenders; how prison theatre work in Brazil informs work in the UK; theatre work with young offenders; and dramatic intervention in probation services and with ex-offenders.
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When it was time to cast for my play, I was faced with a choice: I could have gone out and recruited either from the prison's brightest or from its less literate mainstream. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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When it was time to cast for my play, I was faced with a choice: I could have gone out and recruited either from the prison's brightest or from its less literate mainstream. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
prison theatre, violent illusion, devising process, probation staff, drama projects, offending behaviour, drama work, women offenders, arts practitioners, social atom, prison regime, theatre practitioners, prison environment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Clean Break, Head of Education, New York, House of Four, Ruth Escobar, Death Bird, Manchester University, Geese Theatre Company, Drama Department, Long Lartin, Shirley Johnson, James Thompson, Manchester Prison, Rose Dickinson, Shakespeare Comes, Week Two, Contact Theatre, Greater Manchester Probation Service, Normal Location, Paul Dennerly, Week One, Colonel Souto, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Mark Rylance, Patricia Holmes New!
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- Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman on page 191, page 194, and Back Matter
- The Rainbow of Desire: The Boal Method of Theatre and Therapy by Augusto Boal in Front Matter, page 80, and page 86
- Theatre of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal in Front Matter, page 35, and page 41
- Arts Approaches to Conflict by Marian Liebmann in Front Matter, page 88, and page 126
- Home Is Where We Start From: Essays by a Psychoanalyst by D. W. Winnicott in Front Matter, and page 108
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- Pan-African Issues in Crime and Justice (Interdisciplinary Research Series in Ethnic, Gender and Class Relations) by Anita Kalunta-Crumpton on page 154, page 155, and page 156
- Drama Workshops for Anger Management and Offending Behaviour by James Thompson in Back Matter
- Imagining Medea: Rhodessa Jones and Theater for Incarcerated Women by Rena Fraden in Back Matter
- Theatre in Prison: Theory and Practice by Michael Balfour in Front Matter
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