Carcerality, Theatre, Rights: Editorial
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Date
2021-08
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Authors
Hazou R
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Taylor and Francis Group
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Abstract
Threatened with ever-increasing levels of surveillance and confinement, this special issue attempts to extend the discussion of Prison Theatre to consider ‘carcerality’ as a pervasive neoliberal strategy. The issue aims to steer the discussion away from considerations of utility and the aesthetics of redemption, towards understandings of the arts in carceral spaces as a fundamental human right. What role can theatre and performance play in highlighting the rights of those experiencing state-sponsored control, confinement and exclusion? And what role can theatre and performance play in challenging the exclusionary structures of carcerality by enhancing freedoms, liberty and inclusion?
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Carcerality, theatre, rights, prison theatre, applied theatre
Citation
RIDE-THE JOURNAL OF APPLIED THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE, 2021, 26 (3), pp. 385 - 405