A project to promote the voices of disenfranchised young women in the juvenile hall system through devised theatre & Shakespeare analysis.
Over the course of six weeks, a long term women's unit in a San Diego Juvenile Detention Facility will investigate gender politics and female empowerment (or the lack thereof) within five Shakespeare plays: Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and Titus Andronicus. We will focus on one play per week, specifically through the lens of its female characters, and the extraordinary circumstances in which we find them.
The aim of the workshop is to create a safe, ensemble driven environment in which students will be invited to make comparisons between their own lives and the text, and develop playwriting skills in order to begin staging and documenting their own stories. The workshop will culminate in a performance event at the Detention Facility in December 2016.
Your donation will help provide payment to visiting actors performing for the students, as well as purchase copies of Shakespeare texts for each young woman to read and keep.
For further information, please contact:
katiecburris@gmail.com