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Applied Theatre: Women and the Criminal Justice System (Hardcover)
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Applied Theatre: Women and the Criminal Justice System (Hardcover)
Series: Applied Theatre
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Applied Theatre: Women and the Criminal Justice System offers
unprecedented access to international theatre and performance
practice in carceral contexts and the material and political
conditions that shape this work. Each of the twelve essays and
interviews by international practitioners and scholars reveal a
panoply of practice: from cross-arts projects shaped by
autobiographical narratives through to fantasy-informed cabaret;
from radio plays to film; from popular participatory performance to
work staged in commercial theatres. Extracts of performance texts,
developed with Clean Break theatre company, are interwoven through
the collection. Television and film images of women in prison are
repeatedly painted from a limited palette of stereotypes - 'bad
girls', 'monsters', 'babes behind bars'. To attend to theatre with
and about women with experience of the criminal justice system is
to attend to intersectional injustices that shape women's
criminalization and the personal and political implications of
this. The theatre and performance practices in this collection
disrupt, expand and reframe representational vocabularies of
criminalized women for audiences within and beyond prison walls.
They expose the role of incarceration as a mechanism of state
punishment, the impact of neoliberalism on ideologies of punishment
and the inequalities and violence that shape the lives of many
incarcerated women. In a context where criminalized women are often
dismissed as unreliable or untrustworthy, the collection engages
with theatre practices which facilitate an economy of credibility,
where women with experience of the criminal justice system are
represented as expert witnesses.
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