Captive audience : prison and captivity in contemporary theater

 Content: Captive audience: an introduction / Thomas Fahy --
 PART I --
 Confessional voice: Medea's brutal imagination / Rena Fraden --
 Emotional contraband: prison as metaphor and meaning in U.S. Latina drama / Tiffany Ana Lopez --
 Seeing ethnicity: the impact of race and class on the critical reception of Miguel Piñero's Short eyes / Fiona Mills --
 PART II --
 On prisons in the United States: extract from a speech delivered to the confederation of analytical psychologists, London, 25 June 1999 / Harold Pinter --
 Harold Pinter's prison house: the screenplay of Kafka's The trial / Ann C. Hall --
 Harold Pinter's The handmaid's tale: freedom, prison, and a hijacked script / Christopher C. Hudgins --
 ''World of bodies'': performing flesh in Marat/Sade / Pamela Cooper --
 Disposal: William Inge's abject drama / Robert F. Gross --
 ''In dark corners'': masculinity and art in Tennessee Williams's Not about nightingales / Thomas Fahy --
 Physical prisons: Naomi Wallace's drama of captivity / Claudia Barnett --
 No exit and Waiting for Godot: performances in contrast / Lois Gordon.
 Abstract:             
              Beginning with an essay by Harold Pinter, this text examines social, gendered, ethnic and cultural problems of incarceration explored through contemporary theatre. The essays discuss a range of topics related to the intersection of theatre and prison including theatrical prison projects, Marat/Sade and themes of imprisonment in US Latino drama.                 Read more...