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Fesette, Nicholas; Levitt, Bruce; Kilburn, Jayme – Research in Drama Education, 2021
The Phoenix Players Theatre Group (PPTG) was founded in 2009 by incarcerated men at the Auburn Correctional Facility in Upstate New York. This article explores PPTG's work using Nicholas Mirzoeff's (2011) theory of the 'right to look' in order to understand how prison theatre functions within and against the visual regime of carcerality. This…
Descriptors: Drama, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Males
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Fesette, Nick; Levitt, Bruce – Teaching Artist Journal, 2017
The Phoenix Players Theatre Group was founded by incarcerated theatre artists located in a maximum-security prison with the aim of creating a space where they can be witnessed in order to initiate a process of personal, cultural, and sociopolitical transformation. This article integrates research from trauma theory with theatre and social justice…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Theater Arts, Transformative Learning