The Medea Project: mythic theater for incarcerated women.

Feminist Studies | June 22, 2004| | Copyright 
 
[S]ometimes the stories take you and fling you against a wall sometimes 
you go right through the wall 
--Alicia Ostriker, "coda," The Volcano Sequence

PERFORMANCE ARTIST AND SOCIAL ACTIVIST Rhodessa Jones began conducting drama workshops with incarcerated women in the late 1980s. Inspired by the success of her one-woman show based on the lives of four inmates in her class, Big Butt Girls--Hard Headed Women, Jones decided to create an ensemble with the inmates at San Francisco County jail. She used as a model Jean Trounstine's theater workshop inside Framingham, ...

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