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a danish court has acquitted of free speech after this who was on trial over critical remarks he made about islam lars hedegaard slam domestic violence within most culture. up next a performance you're unlikely to forget where the stage is a prison and the actors are inmates that's next stay with us. that was always preceded by bursts of laughter and swearing and shave today it's you they were all wrong schools swearing all the time i am. i am the first glance this theater this like and i am the difference is that this stage is found in a prison i am located in two thousand kilometers east of moscow convicted

criminals read in tiny plays or similar playhouses by wire and such. that the us will use this puppets were made it recently. the general should not be ignored. and then comes the judge. its downfall but any of these inmates regularly visited the theater before they landed behind bars valentini ivanov was given eight years for being in possession of heroin. the ex drug trafficker puts on puppet shows an unusual spectacle for a penal colony. we design the puppets i make them

from anything available here this piece for instance is made from paper. there are some true craftsmen. after all they didn't always sit in prison their whole lives. to fairy tales when they were children. and they like them now to. occasionally take on the role of playwright. new meanings to old folk stories to adapt them to spectators who spent many years behind. the people here in prison have a lot in common with the fairy tale heroes. for example. behavior used to be so. used to do so many bad things. and faithfully it landed him in jail. inmates spend most of their time in these quarters there are enough to tear beds

for one hundred people an area is set aside for convicts who want to write to their relatives. ideas hello hello. prisoner for who do you know you've got a letter. thank you. to the prison. he's serving a twelve year prison sentence for. his wife is an inmate at another prison camp for a separate crime the other thing they have in common is their daughter back home and the letters they write to each other. he says. that he is looking forward to the moment when they let me go. he wants me to visit him in the

bureau he still acts in the drama club. his muse and all don't have very much. there are more than a thousand inmates in this prison council and then there's a theater here too but unlike her husband spent doesn't appear on stage. but she often watches performances by incarcerated stabs a favorite is shakespeare's romeo and juliet. six so when you. look at your last. arms take your last embrace. and lift o.-u. the doors of brass sealed with the righteous casts. a date less bargained to engrossing death. since there are no men around

all the men's roles in this production the play by women. the girl playing the part of frome you easy lana to me she had always been just a girl before appearing in that scene where i say i long for. the picture in my mind's eye suddenly changed as i said that addressing her i felt as if i was talking to a boring although in actual fact a girl so i think you need to be in love if you want expressions of love on stage to look genuine if you have love in your soul then you have no difficulty showing it in your acting. whenever i look at kutztown on stage it seems to me that she is indeed juliet and i see myself as romeo. the girl who's playing juliet was convicted of homicide before being sent to a friend to play. was involved in a shop job i know action in this theater very much.

been doing it since two thousand and seven. the theaters are home really time moves faster here. a change in the hero will leave an entirely different one. sometimes i even forget that i'm in prison was pretty. soon as the performance is over the women actors will change their fancy costumes for a person even if. they look like mates but the rascals and friends a stepping stone for. today's come back to that is about to come to an end everyone returns to the sounds in the evening. and in the men's prison. there's a letter for you. every

word is important to me. thing is that she loves me. misses me and hasn't forgotten about me. easy to talk about that. you gain he says love and fear to help him survive prison life. will move this one for want. and these together. we're going to hear you as one two three. the theater creates

a different reality a world of fantasy heroes rather than criminals. this is catty or nasty and. i can't tell one woman from another i'm really at a loss of idea that wait a minute nicholai you are father your son is fooling around with two women yes my son so off you go just do it me at the store was that it was a dress rehearsal passes off smoothly. now it chief aim is to raise awareness about what we're doing and target audience is inside and outside prison. that's why we touch on such important subjects as friendship between men. family and jobs. m p a mush a puppet sporting colorful costumes take to the stage while many great prison

uniform filled the room. in maine to lend their voices to the puppets it's no ordinary fairy tale but the prisoners understand its message well you know the general is awfully wise he knows how to organize a frame up and send them to prison without giving any reason i'd do my job with zeal and the result is quite real if you are still a runaway you are sure to be brought to bay you. nobody will ever see this production outside what's called the zone nevertheless the actors in this prison colony make no secret of the fact they would like to perform in front of the general public.

inmates can't help but discuss future productions at meal time they're going to stage an excerpt from a story by the russian author feel the dostoyevsky. play was based on notes from the house of the dead. yes he wrote the story after returning from a span of hard labor in siberia in exile. cultures that so much of an oldish musician find time to get outside the month of the promotion an oxymoron what is america's trap. brokered in the arab world and is invoking security. wealthy british style the stock.

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theaters behind bars first came into vogue when british actor and director alex downer visited a jail in the us before that dow had stage several plays in irish prisons but few believed his project would succeed in russia. people were concerned. my mama my wife my friends yeah people a lot what's a crazy. you know people were interested as well to find out how it would be so inside and after i'd done some research on move off i didn't have any. walls why i said that for two weeks he refers to play with russian in makes this philosophical look features the main character in conversation with god more of. the russian men i was working with had what i think is a quite sceptical russian trite switches they have very high degree of

conscientiousness so what i also them to do something. they would do it without much problem they would just do the work they were asked to do in english prisons. generally it's cool sometimes to kind of just not do things and knock. down his production signals the first signs of success. since then the federal service overseeing the country's penitentiary system has organized several theoretical festivals for prisoners. teenagers in a special colony of the town of michel near moscow a set to take part in one of them. attention all right. all the teenagers here get up at six thirty in the morning no exceptions are made.

second unit. they follow the same routine as their adult counterparts in other institutions the only difference is that these teenagers go to school. in this colony the teenage actors need good make up for the folktale they want to perform their tutors have brought powder and ink for them. is what college do you meet. despite their age they've committed serious crimes. for most of the young actors this is a milestone on the way to freedom. if they show that the talented actors they might receive leniency from the administration. even though only three actors make up this small troop the total prison time between them up to ten years.

my name is nicholas. i'm serving a sentence of one year and three months for stealing a car. my name is alexander of i'm serving five years for robbery and still got three years to go yeah. i've been convicted of serious assault and halfway through two yes sentences but with. the juvenile prison. so the performance takes place in a car. to begin with one of the offenders films the boys routine the inmates will see it later this is when the finishing touches have been put to the film the play will be shown in many other prisons not that i dare say you are still hoping that your friend andrei will help you your hopes are futile look midnight is approaching and so is a terrible ordeal but you will have to go through young man me meanwhile your so-called friend is looking at his favorite book of stamps and savoring some fruit

ice cream it's a law in your law if you see a. fellow inmates now have the chance to take in the video performance. admits he wants to continue his acting career when he's set free. i would like to keep doing it. for. myself. but then try to achieve high goals step by step. towards your. faction from. experience here. i've got lots of plans for the future. psychologists offer their own explanation as to why inmates to take part in performances while in prison theatre helps them cope with hardships and realize their creative potential. that helps them vent pent up

emotions which is sometimes more important than anything else to a prisoner. it is very easy to give expression to your inner emotions when you are not what you are anyone wearing the myth they feel they're expressing the emotions of their characters rather than their own therefore they can always pretend that the emotions they show on stage. characters. rock. always present was. present. the emotions of past these men are now concerned with something more important they have won a trip to moscow to attend a theater festival. they will be a school to way to moscow these inmates get to leave the barbed wire behind if only for a few hours. ok he enters the barrack stinks

like hell and it's packed with all sorts of people some four hundred all in all do you know what i'm trying to say actors from the men's prison colony in the us now planning something so ambitious that even experienced producers might be reluctant to try these men want to give their audience a history lesson by posing as nineteenth century comics. notes from the house of the dead gives a vivid description of their prison life. each of the books characters are symbols of misery and disappointment to lives that are ruined you need to make it clear to the audience so that they feel the same way. meanwhile. from the juvenile correctional facility. to attend a youth theatre festival six groups are taking part in the competition. of them consist of young offenders. played was presented to you by the cast.

prison camp. alexander and. the teenage convicts not. the judges who decides to award first place to that production and in another surprise move they declared that one of the banks has been accepted into the theater college without having to take entrance exams. begin to attend classes he said. we didn't really expect to get first place that was quite a surprise but been doing it for. anybody else just like dang it and i can hardly believe what made it to the top. all is set for the opening night performance of the play in the euros colony. local craftsman have built sets to match the interior of the prison described by does day after school complete with plans that. the actors put themselves into high end they confess they had no

difficulty adapting to the role of nineteenth century russian comics me after all they're in a fairly similar situation themselves. though barack was kept under lock and key throughout the night. it was a long it narrow. and stuffy room. stall the racket. jets where this instant. oh yes man is a hardy creature a creature capable of getting used to anything is. it and i think. that's the best definition of them and. the play based on dusting ascii has impressed inmates in the same light that is in

prison clothes are in for a surprise thank you many of them they get a mention to visit my relatives at the earliest opportunity thank. the fears of plays a role in the life of women inmates to. at any rate the woman playing the part of lenny i may be released to the end of the term and she hopes she will be discharged on hello. psychologists asserting that acting in a prison theatre may help those who have fallen foul of the movie pave the way for a better life on the outside. the system that made him was the one he vowed to change. children in pilot's names the path to democracy a symbol of ethics reform and desperate ambition. and

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