O que acontece quando eu olho para você: o espaço íntimo do teatro na prisão para prisioneiros e voluntários

Authors

  • Karen Hamer University of Texas-Dallas
  • Cedric Martin DUPAI Sterling Correctional Facility

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5965/14145731033920200110

Keywords:

Prison theater, Prison arts, Prison volunteers, Rehabilitation, Arts-in-corrections

Abstract

Apesar dos crescentes estudos sobre teatro e voluntários nas prisões, há pouca pesquisa que olha para a experiência teatral da prisão através dos olhos tanto dos voluntários externos quanto dos prisioneiros-participantes.  Este artigo busca tecer as vozes dos coautores para explorar experiências compartilhadas da sala de aula do teatro prisional. Essas experiências – descritas como "mágicas" e "transcendentes" – dependem do voluntariado navegando com sucesso na entrada na prisão. O espaço da sala de aula do teatro prisional torna-se então um refúgio relacional onde tanto os presos quanto os voluntários podem se sentir bem-vindos e aceitos, vistos não como outros,  mas como  essenciais.

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Author Biographies

Karen Hamer, University of Texas-Dallas

Doctoral student at the University of Texas-Dallas. She is the founder and artistic director of Tin Roof Productions 501(c)(3). Karen taught Shakespeare as a volunteer at Fremont Correctional Facility in Canon City, Colorado, from 2015-2017.

Cedric Martin, DUPAI Sterling Correctional Facility

Member of DUPAI at Sterling Correctional Facility, Sterling, Colorado. Of his 20 years’ incarceration, he has spent ten-plus years in solitary confinement. Cedric’s interests include physical mathematics, letter-writing, and drawing.

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Published

2020-12-23

How to Cite

HAMER, Karen; MARTIN, Cedric. O que acontece quando eu olho para você: o espaço íntimo do teatro na prisão para prisioneiros e voluntários. Urdimento: Revista de Estudos em Artes Cênicas, Florianópolis, v. 3, n. 39, p. 1–33, 2020. DOI: 10.5965/14145731033920200110. Disponível em: https://revistas.udesc.br/index.php/urdimento/article/view/18907. Acesso em: 21 nov. 2024.

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