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about the islam how to god domestic violence with him is the culture. up next a performance you are unlikely to forget where the stage is a prison on the axes all inmates stay with us our special report coming up next. that was always preceded by bursts of laughter and swearing and shaved dates. they were all wrong schools swearing all the time i am. i am at first glance this is this like i am the difference is that this stage is found in a prison i am located in the two thousand kilometers east of moscow convicted

criminals serving time plays for similar playhouses behind quiet and suffering. that is this puppets made it recently so. good. the general should not be ignored. and then comes the judge but it. it's down to 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 public.

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. of 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 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 i 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. 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 he's still active in the drama club. his muse and all don't have very much.

there are 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. it's set in. looks your last. arms take your last embrace. and lift o.-u. the doors of brass seal with the righteous casts. a date less bargained to engrossing death. since there are no men around.

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. 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 touchdown on stage it seems to me that she is indeed juliet and i see myself as romeo. and juliet was convicted of homicide but. 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. opinion of the shia 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 come back to that is about to come to an end everyone returns to the salads in the evening spent long lives up to her promise of sending a letter to her husband in the men's prison. there's a letter for you thanks a lot. every

word is less important to me. there will be less she writes. this. warning thing is that she loves me. misses me and hasn't forgotten about me. easy and to talk about that. you gain 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. three as ok like that.

the theater creates a different reality. the fantasy heroes rather than criminals. this is catty and nasty and. i can't tell one woman from another i'm really at a loss of idea that wait a minute nicholai your father your son is fooling around with two women yes my son so off you go just do it me at this thought was that it was a dress rehearsal passes off smoothly. what should have been we were now it chief aim is to raise awareness about what we 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. a puppet sporting colorful costumes taped to the stage. gray prison uniform filled

the room. in one thousand voices to the puppet 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 three 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 if i'm.

inmates cond help but discuss future productions at meal time they're going to stage an excerpt from a story by the russian author dostoyevsky the play was based on notes from the house of the dead. yes he wrote the story after returning from the spell of hard labor in siberia next fall. wealthy british style.

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fields is behind bars first came into vogue when british actor and director. visited the jail in the new rules before that stage several plays in irish prisons but few believed his project would succeed in russia. people were. my mom my wife. yeah people a lot watts and you crazy. you know

people were interested as well to find out would be. and after i'd done some research on i felt i didn't have any. sense for two weeks he refers to play with russian inmates this philosophical work features the main character in conversation with god. 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 conscientiousness so what i asked 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 in england generally it's cool sometimes to kind of just not do things and not care. down production signals the first signs of success. since then the federal service

overseeing the country's penitentiary system was organized several feet trickle festivals for prisoners. teenagers in a special colony in the town of near moscow a set to take part in one of the. 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 cheaters 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 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 adds up to most 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 i'm serving five years for robbery and still got three years to go. i've been convicted of serious assault and halfway through. the juvenile prison has no home 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. i dare say you are still hoping that your friend andrei will help you up are us your hopes are futile look midnight is approaching and so is a terrible ordeal but you will have to go through a young man's game meanwhile your so-called friend is looking at his favorite book of stamps and savoring some fruit ice cream it's a law 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 a stars myself. but then try to achieve high goals step by step.

you get small satisfaction 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 moreover it 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 where in 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 those characters. look.

well it presents. present. emotions apart 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. a few each of the books characters are

symbols of misery and disappointment their lives that are ruined you need to make it clear to the audience so that they feel the same way. while. from the juvenile correctional facility. to attend a youth theatre festival six groups are taking part in the competition. consist of young offenders. played was presented to you by the cast of prison camp. alexander and. the teenage convicts not. the judges he 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 he said.

we didn't really expect to get first place that was quite a surprise never been doing it for. anybody else just like doing 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 world is calling. local craftsman have built sets to match the interior of the prison described by does day at school complete with plans that. the actors put themselves into and 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. the 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. me and i think. that's the best definition of them and. the play based on the stand ski has impressed inmates in the same light the actors in prison clothes are in for a surprise thank you many of them they get a mention to visit my relatives for the earliest opportunity thanks. to this or 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 a term and she hopes she will be discharged on hello. psychologist to certain that acting in a prison theater may help those who have fallen foul of the move paves the way for

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