Documenting a theater project for incarcerated youth in a New Mexico juvenile detention facility, this book presents the script of a play about prison life, and interweaves the author's creative, self-reflective text (autoethnography). The collaborative experience of writing and staging such a play enacted by prisoners frames a discussion of larger social and political themes in the criminal justice system, and of the complexities of getting juveniles to engage with administrators and social workers as mentors.
| ISBN: | 9781476669052 |
| Publication date: | 30th November 2017 |
| Author: | Nandita Dinesh |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Co Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 167 pages |
| Genres: |
Individual actors and performers Theatre studies |
Documenting a theater project for incarcerated youth in a New Mexico juvenile detention facility, this book presents the script of a play about prison life, and interweaves the author's creative, self-reflective text (autoethnography). The collaborative experience of writing and staging such a play enacted by prisoners frames a discussion of larger social and political themes in the criminal justice system, and of the complexities of getting juveniles to engage with administrators and social workers as mentors.
Scripting Detention features in the following genres: Individual actors and performers, Theatre studies
Scripting Detention is available in Paperback
Scripting Detention was written by Nandita Dinesh and published by McFarland & Co Inc
Scripting Detention has 167 pages
£31.46