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the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to rule the day. and. position the unites. to six days of government robbing the exit chief of the international atomic war. is being viewed as the man who could announce president. ukraine's prime minister devolves to know the whereabouts of kids missing. knowing things that centricity hasn't been seen in public six months but is said to still be roaming the capital. of the danish court has appointed
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a free speech to those who are critical of laws he made about islam laws that of god salaam domestic violence within muslim culture. but. time with more news for you but next a performance that you unlike you can forget where the stage is the prison and the . special reports coming up next. that was always preceded by bursts of laughter and swearing and shave today it's. they were all wrong schools swearing all the time i am. at first glance this is here to dislike and. the difference is that this stage is
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found in a prison i am located in two thousand kilometers east of moscow convicted criminals serving time plays there are similar playhouses behind in some cases. but the us is this puppets made it recently as. the general should. use them and then comes the judge should. its downfall but any of these inmates regularly visited the theater before they landed behind bars valentini ivanov was given eighty years for being in possession of heroin. the extra traffic puts on puppet shows an unusual spectacle for a penal colony. we design the puppets and make them
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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. used to do so many bad things. and faithfully landed him in jail.
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inmate 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. ladies hello hello. prisoner for when you got a letter. thank you. to the prison. he's serving a twelve year prison sentence for murder. his wife is an inmate at another prison for a separate crime the other thing they have in common is their daughter back home and as they write to each other. he says. that is lookin forward to the moment when they let me go. he wants me to visit him he's still
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active in the drama club. his muse and all don't have very much. is. there more than a thousand inmates in this prison camp for women as a theatre here too but unlike her husband spent lana doesn't appear on stage. but she often watches performances by incarcerated styles a favorite is shakespeare's romeo and juliet. see him as looks your last. arms take your last embrace. and the lips oh you the doors the brass seal with a righteous kiss. i dateless bargained to engrossing death. since there are no men around. this production.
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the girl playing the part of easy lana to me she had always been just a girl before appearing in that scene where i say i love. 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 the town on stage it seems to me that she is indeed juliet and i see myself as romeo. and juliet was convicted of homicide before.
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i'm joining 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 here will leave an entirely different one. sometimes i even forget that i'm in prison with pretty. soon as the performance is over the women actors will change their fancy costumes for prison uniform they will again look like three inmates but the rascals unfriending the floors a stepping stone for. today's company to that is about to come to an end everyone returns to the cells in the evening spent lana lives up to her promise of sending a letter to her husband in the men's prison. there's a letter for you thanks
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a lot. that is every word is less important to me. there were less she writes. this. morning thing is that she loves me. misses me and hasn't forgotten about me. easy him to talk about that. he says love and fear to help him survive prison life. will move this one for want. but all these together. we're going to hear you.
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three. the theater creates a different reality. the fantasy heroes rather than criminals. this is cathy and nastia and. i can't tell one woman from another i'm really at a loss of 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 this is that it is a dress rehearsal passes off smoothly. now a 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.
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puppets sporting colorful costumes take to the stage while many great prison uniform filled the room. in make their voices to the puppet. 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 do my job with zeal and the result is quite real if you are still a runaway you are sure to be brought. to obey 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.
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inmates cond help but discuss future productions at meal time they're going to stage an excerpt from a story by the russian author feel to have dostoevsky the play was based on notes from the house of the dead just oh yes he wrote the story off to returning from a spot of hot labor in siberia an exile. cultures that so much are going to huge musician the power of fine talk to friends is outside democracy promotion an oxymoron what is america's track record in the
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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 mother my wife my friends yeah people a lot what's crazy. but you know people were interested as well to find out how it would be song. and after i'd done some research on me that i felt i didn't have any. point saying this 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 typical russian traits which is they have very high degree of
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conscientiousness so when i asked them to do something they would do it without much problem they would just do the work they they were asked to do. in prison. generally it's cool 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 theatrical festivals for prisoners. teenagers in a special colony in the town of missionaries near moscow a set to take part in one of them. attention all rise. all the teenagers here get up at six thirty in the morning no exceptions are made.
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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 cheaters have brought powder ending for them. here are the ice and it is what comedy elite. 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 they're 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.
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my name is nicholas. i'm serving a sentence of one year and three months for stealing a car. my name is alexander i'm serving five years for robbery and i still got three years to go. i've been convicted of serious assault and halfway through two yes sentenced but was. in juvenile prison. so the performance takes place in a commodore 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
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ice cream it's a law i. fellow inmates now have a 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 plans for the future. psychologists offer their own explanation. to take part in performances while in prison theatre helps them cope with hardships and realize their creative potential. pent up emotions which is sometimes more
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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 playing a role is wearing them and 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 are those characters. well we present what we've got is a good. president. emotions apart these men are now concerned with something more important they have won a trip to moscow to attend a theatre festival. they will be a school to all the way to moscow these inmates get to leave the barbed wire behind if only for a few hours. ok he enters the barrack stinks
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like hell and it's packed with all sorts of people some four hundred all in all you get what i'm trying to say actors from the men's prison colony in the ural is 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. ski's notes from the house of the dead gives a vivid description of their prison life. a few 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 inmates from the juvenile correctional facility have arrived in moscow to attend a youth theatre festival six groups are taking part in the competition. of them consist of young offenders. was presented to you by the can.
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prison camp. alexander and. the teenage convict efforts have not been. a panel of judges from now on a mostly decides to award first place to that production and in another surprise move they declared that one of the inmates has been accepted into the theater college without having to take entrance exams. begin to attend classes after he served his term. there are enough phone didn't ring us we didn't really expect to get first place that was quite a surprise or we've been doing it for ourselves rather than anybody else or just like doing it. i can hardly believe what made it to the top. all is set for the opening night performance of the plate in the humans colony. noting craftsman have built sets to match the interior of the prison described by dust a.f.p.
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complete with plant that. the actors put themselves into and they confess they had no difficulty adapting to the role of nineteenth century russian convicts me after all they're in a fairly similar situation themselves. the barrack was kept under lock and key throughout the night. it was a long. narrow. delphine room. stall the racket. jets we have 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 and.
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the play based on dusting ascii has impressed inmates in the same light the actors in prison clothes are in for a surprise thanks so much they get a mention to visit my relatives at the earliest opportunity thanks. to 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. she hopes she will be discharged on parole. psychologist to certain that acting in a prison theater 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
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