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 article describes how PPTG employs non-traditional performance perspectives drawn from rasaesthetics to visualise and re-make the outside world while simultaneously working against the 'panoptic' regime of Western theatre to create a different kind of seeing.