Woodland SHazou R3/07/20212021-08RIDE-THE JOURNAL OF APPLIED THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE, 2021, 26 (3), pp. 385 - 4051356-9783https://hdl.handle.net/10179/19805Threatened 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?385 - 405Carceralitytheatrerightsprison theatreapplied theatreJournal article10.1080/13569783.2021.19448054474631470-112XMassey_Dark1303 Specialist Studies in Education1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing