this is the rest in egypt's gathering momentum has hundreds of thousands of people converge on his capital claim in the latest attempt of fools president mubarak to step down say for three hundred. killed two to three finals and injured since protests began. and a day of tribute to one of russia's most controversial leaders called me on the surface but the country remembers its late president but as the outside his legacy still has many russians developed its. audience expelling a russian diplomat save the spy related accusations claims moscow's intelligence service you'd still deny deeds of irish citizens to cover its agents in the u.s. . up next a performance unlikely to forget where the stage is

a person and that has stayed with us for all special report that. 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 would i am at first glance this theater is like and i am the difference is that this stage is found in a prison i am slow created in the year two thousand kilometers east of moscow convicted criminals serving time plays for similar playhouses behind in south korea.

that the us is 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 eighty years for being in possession of heroin here 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. used to do so many bad things. and faithfully 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. ladies

hello hello. prisoner for whom you've got a letter. thank you. to the prison theatre 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 the letters they write to each other. he says. that he's looking forward to the moment when they let me go he wants me to visit him 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 lana doesn't appear on stage. but she often watches performances by incarcerated stands a favorite is shakespeare's romeo and juliet. six seven. looks your last. arms take your last embrace. and the lips oh you the doors of brass sealed with the righteous kiss. me and i dateless bargain to engrossing death. since there are no men around all the men's roles in this production the play by women thanks. to. 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 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 the town 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 here a friend who plays the part of romeo was involved in the armed robbery of a shop. jyothi ein joint action in this theater very much. i've been doing it since two thousand and seven. the theaters are home really time moves faster here. a change in the shia will

leave an entirely different one thousand and sometimes i even forget that i'm in prison was pretty incident. as soon as the performance is over the women actors will change their fancy costumes for prison uniform they will look like all three inmates but the rascals unfriending was a stepping stone for. today's campaign to that is are about to come to a man everyone returns to the salads in the evening. promise of sending a letter to her husband in the men's prison. there's a letter for you. were .

every word is important to me. thing is that she loves me. misses me and hasn't forgotten about me. to talk about that. 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. three. the theater creates a different reality. the fantasy heroes rather than criminals.

this is cathy and nastia and. i can tell one woman from another i'm really at a loss. 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 thought it was after the dress rehearsal passes off smoothly. now is the 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. puppets sporting colorful costumes take to the stage. gray prison uniform filled the room. in 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. giving any reason to. do my job with zeal and the result is quite real if you are still a runaway you are sure to be brutes to obey you. nobody will ever see this production outside what is 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 going to stage an excerpt from a story by the russian author feel to have dostoyevsky the play was based on notes from the house of the dead just yesterday wrote the story off to returning from a spell of hard labor in siberia in exile. wealthy british style. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with monks cause or for

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behind bars first came into vogue when british actor and director. visited a jail in the u.s. before that stage several plays in irish prisons but few believed his project would succeed in russia. people working. people a lot what's crazy. you know people

were interested as well to find out would be. and after i'd done some research on you 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 more like. 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 as production signals the first signs of success.

since then the federal service overseeing the country's penitentiary system was organized several theatrical festivals for prisoners. teenagers in a special colony in the town of 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 i'm eight. second unit yes. 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. it 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 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 ten years. my name is nicholas. i'm serving a sentence of one year in 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. 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 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 in 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 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 realise their creative potential. that helps them 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 mess they feel they're expressing the emotions of the characters rather than their own therefore they can always pretend that the emotions they show on stage. characters. look.

well we present. you go right as it. presents. 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 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 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 saying 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. 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 their 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 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 cast of prison camp. alexander and. the teenage convict efforts have not been a. panel of judges who now mislead 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 now

found it in reverse 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 and the humans colony. no two craftsman have built sets to match the interior of the prison described by dust a.f.p. complete with plans that. the actors put themselves into lions 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. and duffy room.

stalled this 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 and. the play based on dusting ascii has impressed in one thousand times a light the actors in prison clothes are in for a surprise to many of them they get in and try to visit my relatives at the earliest opportunity thanks. there's a plays a role in the life of women inmates to. at any rate the woman playing the part of lenny and maybe released the family in the photo. she hopes she will be discharged on parole. psychologists asserting that acting in

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