In 2012, when "Orange" began production, prison reform was a bipartisan movement.
The Push festival, showcasing some of Manchester's most exciting theatre-makers, continues at Home, where Babel Theatre perform You Must Be the One to Bury Me (until Thursday), exploring love and memory, and Hercules Productions' Prison Game (from tonight until Thursday) looks at how being in prison can define a man.
The entire prison could go on lockdown, effectively halting production; or prison guards could suddenly swoop in and search an entire manufacturing facility, disrupting output.
As it has grown more prominent, and thus inevitably more exclusive, its Mobile Shakespeare Unit has assumed the mantle of that tradition, staging productions in prisons, homeless shelters, centers for the elderly, poor neighborhoods and other places where access to the arts is harder to come by.
Stefan for his part at least appears to be a lock to play Donald Sutherland's character in the prison production of Don't Look Now.
A comical vision presents itself of Wandsworth as a drive-through burger joint: "Do you want fries with that or a sawn-off shotgun?" But what's wrong with the idea of sustained prison production or training inmates as apprentices for industry?
When he discovers that the governor has written a musical of his own, based on the romance of Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton, Jimmy persuades him to sponsor a prison production, conveniently staged in an unused, tumbledown chapel with breaches that may let Jimmy and some of his pals escape.
But the prison production of 'The Tempest' leads to some of the book's clunkiest elements".
Owning khat now carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison, and production or distribution is subject to up to a prison sentence of 14 years.
One longtime reputed gang member compares the illicit gambling and liquor production in maximum-security prisons to bootlegging during Prohibition and the high-roller tables in Las Vegas.
