Shakespeare Behind Bars
Project Added: August 19, 2021
![People sitting in a circle in robes with sashes holding up their hands. Their hands have red gloves on them](/system/files/styles/project_database_node_header/private/2021-08/Prisons_Shakespeare.png?itok=mkmea2rY)
Julius Caesar, 2017, directed by Matt Wallace. Inmate cast at Luther Luckett Correctional Complex. Photo by Holly Stone. Courtesy of Shakespeare Behind Bars.
Arts-and Intersections:
Prisons & RehabilitationCollaborators:
Location:
Macatawa, MichiganRegion:
Genre/Discipline:
Theater & performancePopulation Density:
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Multi-State RegionFoundations:
Project Website:
http://www.shakespearebehindbars.orgOVERVIEW
Shakespeare Behind Bars is a prison theater troupe working with adult and juvenile inmates in Kentucky and Michigan. It offers programs with personal and social issues to incarcerated and post-incarcerated community members, teaching them life skills to ensure their reintegration into society.