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Acacia prison inmates put on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Acacia prison inmates put on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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 […]

November 15, 2015 · 0 comments · Global

Shakespeare Presented at Maximum Security Prison

Huntington University press release On Thursday, April 23, Dr. Jack Heller, assistant professor of English at Huntington University, is going to prison. Heller will co-direct a group of 18 inmates at the Pendleton Correctional Facility in the Shakespeare play, Coriolanus, with Dr. Stacy Erickson, associate professor of English at Manchester University. Since September, Heller has made weekly trips to the maximum security men’s […]

April 30, 2015 · 0 comments · Teachers