Session Details

Thursday, 29 December

628. Prison Shakespeare

9:00–10:15 p.m., Delaware Suite A, Marriott

A special session

Presiding: Amy Scott-Douglass, Denison Univ.

1. “Shakespeare behind Bars,” Curt L. Tofteland, Kentucky Shakespeare Festival

2. “Adapting Shakespeare: The Power of Drama in a Women’s Prison,” Jean Trounstine, Middlesex Community Coll., MA

3. “Performing ‘To Be’: The Hamlet Project of Prison Performing Arts,” Margot Sempreora, Webster Univ.

4. “‘Shakespeare Saved My Life’: Voices from a Segregated Housing Unit,” Laura Bates, Indiana State Univ.

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