well made it recently. it's down to any of these inmates regularly visited the theater before they landed behind. was given eighteen years for being in possession of heroin. the x. drug trafficker puts on puppet shows an unusual spectacle for a penal colony. we design the puppets and 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.

of fairy tales when they were children. and they like them now to. occasionally inmates 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 rowdy 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 for one hundred people an area is set aside for convicts who want to write to their relatives.

hello. prisoner for who you are. thank you. to the prison. he's serving a twelve year prison sentence for. his wife is an inmate in prison for a separate crime the other thing they have in common is that. 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 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 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 you know you the doors of brass sealed with a righteous kiss. me on a date less bargain 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 who plays the part of was involved in a shop job that i know actually in this theater very much. been doing it since two thousand and seven. the theaters are home really time moves faster here. a chain you. believe

in an entirely different one. sometimes i even forget that i'm in prison was pretty much. as soon as the performance is over the women actors will change their fancy costumes for prison even if they look like mates but. a stepping stone for. today's come back to that is about to come to everyone returns to the samples in the evening. husband in the men's prison. there's a letter for you. every

word is important to me. warming 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. peace together. we're going to hear you. three. the theater creates a different reality a world of fantasy heroes rather than criminals. this is catty and nasty and. i can tell one woman from another i'm really at a loss. wait

a minute nicholai you are a father your son is fooling around 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. what should have been or was 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. a mesh a puppet sporting colorful costumes take to the stage while many great prison uniform filled the room. in one thousand and their voices to the puppet it's now wouldn't be fairytale 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. nevertheless the actors in this prison colony make no secret of the fact they would like to perform in front of the general public thank . you.

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 field to. play with the based on notes from the house of the dead. broke the story after returning from a spell of hard labor in siberian exile. wealthy british style stock. markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds

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theaters behind bars first came into vogue when british actor and director alex dowling visited a jail in the u.s. 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 a crazy. you know people were interested as well find out would be. and after i'd done some research i felt i didn't have any. 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 had

a 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 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. there was production signal 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 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. 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 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. 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 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 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 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 vent pent up emotions which

is sometimes more important than anything else to a prisoner but you it is very easy to give expression to your inner emotions when you are not. anyone wearing them 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 it presents what you got 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 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

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 their 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. played was presented to you by the cast of the

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 buddy below begin to attend classes after he served his term. then the phone didn't ring or if we didn't really expect to get first place that was quite a surprise now we've been doing it for ourselves and rather than anybody else just like doing it 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 dust they have to

complete with plans that. the actors put themselves into lions they confess they had no difficulty adapting to the role of nineteenth century russian convex 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 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 the actors in prison clothes appear in for a surprise thank you many of them they get a mention to visit by relatives at the earliest opportunity thanks. here's a 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 she hopes she will be discharged from hello. psychologist to certain that acting in a prison theater may help those who have fallen foul of the move pave the way for a better life for me outside. well when one deals with war for us to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that have done not just human damage but damage the physical environment in

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