Performing New Lives: Prison Theatre

Contents

• Acknowledgments. Foreword by Evelyn Ploumis-Devick.
• 1. Introduction. Jonathan Shailor, University of Wisconsin-Parkside.
• 2. "To Know My Deed": Finding Salvation Through Shakespeare. Laura Bates, Indiana State University.
• 3. Rehabilitation Through the Arts at Sing Sing: Drama in the Big House. Brent Buell, Rehabilitation Through the Arts.
• 4. 59 Places: Dance/Theatre in the Hampshire Jail. Amie Dowling, University of San Francisco.
• 5. Time In: Transforming Identity Inside and Out. Judy Dworin, Trinity College, Connecticut.
• 6. The Buckle on the Bible Belt. Jodi Jinks, ArtsAloud and Rude Mechanicals.
• 7. From the Meanest Creature: Theatre as a Vehicle for Change. Sharon Lajoie, freelance theatre artist and teacher.
• 8. Faith, Hope, and "Sweet Love Re-Membered": "Restoration" Theatre in Kansas Prisons. John McCabe-Juhnke, Bethel College, Kansas.
• 9. Fabulous Females: Secrets, Stories, and Hope: Guarding and Guiding Girls Beyond the Barbed Wire Fence. Meade Palidofsky, Storycatchers Theatre, Chicago.
• 10. Living with Life: The Theatre of Witness as a Model of Healing and Redemption. Teya Sepinuck, The Theatre of Witness.
• 11. Prison Theatre and the Promise of Reintegration. Jonathan Shailor.
• 12. Sculpting Empowerment: Theatre in a Juvenile Facility and Beyond. Julia Taylor, Prison Creative Arts.
• 13. The Keeper of the Keys. Curt L. Tofteland, Shakespeare Behind Bars.
• 14. Revisiting Sacred Spaces. Jean Trounstine, Middlesex Community College.
• 15. The Inmates, the Actors, the Characters, the Audience, and the Poet Are of Imagination All Compact. Agnes Wilcox, Prison Performing Arts.
• 16. "Their Minds Transfigured So Together": Imaginative Transformation and Transcendence in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Elizabeth Charlebois, St. Mary's College of Maryland.
• 17. A Conversation with the Authors: Prison Theatre Artists in Dialogue. The Contributors. Subject Index. Author Index.