Sentence examples for prison theater from inspiring English sources

Prison theater is about redemption.

The underrehearsed ensemble has neither cohesion nor conviction, exhibiting mismatched styles from affectless through overwrought, and a suggestion of mutual mistrust that I suspect you might find in prison theater companies.

Yet, also just saying no was Mr. Puglisi, who eschewed a show in favor of a — well, it wasn't clear exactly: Call it a presentation/happening, done with the help of Armando Punzo, the artistic director of prison theater in Volterra, Italy.

In other countries, prison theater is more widely integrated into the penal system.

But apart from this one Vancouver Island theater troupe, the rest of Canada hasn't gotten the memo about prison theater.

With a move to stricter security measures, harsher crime laws, and cutbacks to prison rehabilitation programs, I wondered how Stephen Harper's government somehow overlooked the artsy pastime taking place within this Vancouver Island compound: prison theater.

"The language is beguilingly rich," wrote Charles Spencer in The Daily Telegraph during the original engagement of "Yard Gal" in 1998, which sold out in London and then went on a five-week tour to prisons, theaters and arts centers around the country.

Even more so are buildings such as prisons, theaters, Christian churches, breweries, government offices and large merchants' houses that served day-to-day purposes for a wide range of people.

In France, the Ministries of Justice and Culture have created a protocol that puts attention on culture in prisons, with theater being part of that.

Back home, she followed Compagnia della Fortezza, a prison-based Tuscan theater company.

Putting on theater in prison may seem inconsequential.