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 theatrica