Abstract
Based on a decade of experience facilitating theater workshops in prisons in Italy, Indonesia, and the United States, this paper documents the responses of incarcerated men and women to Dante’s “Divine Comedy” with special attention to the ways in which they see Dante’s journey out of Hell, through Purgatory, and up to Heaven as parallel to their life journeys through the personal hells that brought them to prison and the heavens they hope to achieve after their release.
Presenters
Ron JenkinsProfessor/Visiting Professor, Theater/Institute of Sacred Music, Wesleyan University/Yale Divinity School, New York, United States
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
The Arts in Social, Political, and Community Life
KEYWORDS
Prison, Dante, Theatre, Social Justice, Systemic Racism