By Laura Gartry for ABC News, 12 November 2015
After more than two years in the planning, Australia’s largest prison has put on several stage performances of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream for visitors and fellow inmates.
The 90-minute production is part of a new program at Acacia Prison in Perth that aims to develop life skills and reduce re-offending.
Prison operator Serco said the initiative was the first full-time performing arts program in an Australian prison.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is comedy about lovers, fairies and a magical forest, not things you expect in a prison, and it was a huge logistical and security task to set up.
But Perth director Nichola Renton was determined to use Shakespeare to help educate and rehabilitate inmates while developing their public speaking skills.
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