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Beyond Prison Walls - UC Irvine
November 15 | 8 p.m.
November 16 | 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.*
FREE | The Little Theatre**
- Rm:161 Humanities Hall Building #601, UC Irvine, CA 92697 -
* The final performance will be streamed live on Facebook
**Please note that the Little Theatre is not part of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts campus.
Here's an address link including directions:
https://www.arts.uci.edu/directions-little-theatre
The UC Irvine Drama Emergent Series, in collaboration with Playwrights Project and UC Irvine's Underground Scholars, will be producing six short plays written by people experiencing incarceration at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility and Centinela State Prison. Although written in prison, the stories are not set in prison, but creatively explore a variety of themes, including motherhood, addiction, peer pressure, depression, and second chances. The theatrical performance runs just over one hour and will be followed by a talkback with the performing artists, returned citizens, and experts in the field of incarceration and justice. Audience members are invited to discuss the wide variety of themes presented in the plays and learn more about rehabilitative programs.
The writers crafted their plays in Playwrights Projects Arts in Corrections programs supported by the California Arts Council and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. California is groundbreaking in its focus on transitioning state prisons towards rehabilitation and transformation. These plays demonstrate the creativity and humanity of individuals who are serving time and working to contribute meaningfully to the community.
The UC Irvine Drama Department is uniquely poised for this opportunity to produce them, since the University of California Irvine is now offering the Lifted program, a bachelor's program inside Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility. Lifted faculty are immersed in rehabilitative efforts at Donovan and building connections to real world opportunities outside of the prison. Some Lifted students will be leaving custody and transitioning to UC Irvine's main campus in the 2024-25 school year. Additionally, UC Irvine has an active Underground Scholars Program, which supports UC Irvine students who have previously been incarcerated or have been impacted by incarceration.
Student artists from the UC Irvine Drama Department are welcoming students from the Underground Scholars Program to collaborate in the production of these plays. Both parties will inform each other on what art means to them and the responsibility of representation in popular media.
Admission to each performance is free, and online reservations are required. To make the production accessible for all, Saturdays evening performance is streamed on Facebook Live from Playwrights Projects fan-page. The production is recorded and the video is provided to the institutions for airing on closed-circuit television inside the correctional facilities, for writers and peers to enjoy the production.
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Online ticket sales will end 12 hours prior to the event start. Tickets can be purchased at the door if there are any remaining. Ticket purchases are non-refundable after the event takes place. Further details will be sent prior to the performance.
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LocationThe Little Theatre - at UC Irvine (View)
Humanities Hall Building #601 (Rm 161)
Irvine, CA 92697
United States
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