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Truthworker Theatre Company-IN|PRISM: Boxed In & Blacked Out in America

IN|PRISM: Boxed In & Blacked Out in America

An original work devised through direct conversation with those inside,IN|PRISM examines the impacts and practices of solitary confinement in US prisons, tracing one man's remarkable capacity for liberation within the walls of death row. Truthworker Theatre Company has had the unique and humbling opportunity to be working directly with Jarvis Jay Masters, an innocent man on death row, who has been incarcerated since the age of 19 in San Quentin Prison and institutionalized since he was a young boy. Jarvis is working from the inside to be in collaboration with Truthworker Theater Company through this creation process. Every young company member has read each of his two books, Finding Freedom and That Bird Has My Wings, in preparation for this production. We are exchanging writings and even speaking directly on the phone when permitted, calling upon technology to mediate transformational and generative dialogue between Jarvis and the youth. We are all motivated by his incredible spirit and thirst for liberation.