this documentary shows what happens when acclaimed playwright, liza jessie peterson, goes inside therge group of inmates. notjust perform, but to activate. they became so animated that prison officers shut it down. the show really goes into what the families of incarcerated people experience and she creates these characters, and some of those characters really take a look at criminaljustice. it's really kind of an indictment of profiting off of prison. what ended up happening in this room when the incarcerated men saw the play, they got so riled up, and connected to liza so much around all of it but particularly those parts that were about injustice, that they shut it down and ushered liza out, so this film is really about that day. what this film shows is how liza jessie peterson was able, by using her imagination and her authentic words to reach beaten down people, to awaken them. just because you see prison with your physical eyes, what do you see beyond that? i am a poet, and so i understand the power of poetry, the power of the word. word, sound, power is a very real thing, word

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