In 1938, a young Tennessee Williams read an article about a prison in Pennsylvania where the incarcerated were punished by being thrown into the boiler room. Four of them were cooked alive. He wrote a play about it, but his publishers shelved it. In 1998, Vanessa Redgrave found the play and brought it the the West End and Broadway where it was nominated for several Tonys.
I have the great joy to be acting in and composing the music for this play at La Mama Theater in NYC. I taught with director...
In 1938, a young Tennessee Williams read an article about a prison in Pennsylvania where the incarcerated were punished by being thrown into the boiler room. Four of them were cooked alive. He wrote a play about it, but his publishers shelved it. In 1998, Vanessa Redgrave found the play and brought it the the West End and Broadway where it was nominated for several Tonys.
I have the great joy to be acting in and composing the music for this play at La Mama Theater in NYC. I taught with director Zishan Urgulu at the Arthur Kill Correctional Facility in Staten Island. In this revival of the play, she has cast several returning citizens (aka “formerly incarcerated”) and developed the play with their input.
I would love for all of you to come, if not to see me, then to watch a powerful play about one of the great social and moral issues of our time: the evil of mass incarceration.
If that's not enough motivation, know that at some point in the play I will be in a straight jacket being forced to eat spaghetti off the floor by one of the prison guards. Also, I’m the first one to die…