Imagining Medea Rhodessa Jones and Theater for Incarcerated Women

Name: Imagining Medea Rhodessa Jones and Theater for Incarcerated Women
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ISBN: 9780807849842

ISBN-10: 0807849847

ISBN-13: 9780807849842

Edition: 2001

Authors: Rena Fraden

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This ain't no Dreamgirls, Rhodessa Jones warns participants in the Medea Project, the theater program for incarcerated women that she founded and directs. Her expectations are grounded in reality, tempered, for example, by the fact that women are the fastest growing population in U.S. prisons. Still, Jones believes that by engaging incarcerated women in the process of developing and staging dramatic works based on their own stories, she can push them toward tapping into their own creativity, confronting the problems that landed them in prison, and taking control of their lives. Rena Fraden chronicles the collaborative process of transforming incarcerated women's stories into productions…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 11/10/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 270
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Rena Fraden is professor of English at Pomona College in Claremont, California. She is author of Blueprints for a Black Federal Theater, 1935-1939.



Foreword



Preface


Introduction



A Counter Epic: Making the Medea Project



To Be Real: Rehearsing Techniques



Prison Discourse: Surveying Lives



Community Work: Imagining Other Spaces



Selected Performing and Directing Biography of Rhodessa Jones


Notes


Bibliography


Index