Author: Sarah Bartley
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Punishment Acts, Production Recording
Punishment Acts was a co production between Rideout (Creative Arts for Rehabilitation) and B arts, working in association with Expert Citizens. The project was a public performance that formed a key part of the Staging Justice research programme. We received additional funding from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama to fund the recording of the production so it could…
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Punishment Acts: Evaluation and Reflection
Punishment Acts was a co production between Rideout (Creative Arts for Rehabilitation) and B arts, working in association with Expert Citizens. The project was a public performance that formed a key part of the Staging Justice research programme. Molly de Dois Fisher was commissioned to produce a qualitative evaluation of Punishment Acts. This report considers key findings around relationships, atmosphere, ownership, autobiography,…
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50 Years of Prison Theatre and 50 Questions for Constructing a Prison Arts Archive
2024 marks fifty years since the foundation of Stirabout, the first British theatre company formed specifically to take performances and workshops into prisons. It also marks the establishment of the Rideout Archive at the Bristol Theatre Collection. The Staging Justice project seeks to contribute to, and develop strategies for, the emergent historiographies of arts in…
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Liberatory Memory Work in Prison Arts Archives
Rideout is a culturally significant arts and criminal justice organisation based in Stoke on Trent. Established in 1999 by Saul Hewish and Chris Johnston, Rideout delivers theatre projects in prison and probation settings, and undertakes distinctive interdisciplinary creative collaborations in its work. The company has worked across theatre, music, sculpture, and film; as well as…
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What Remains After 50 Years of Prison Arts
Below is the text of the talk I gave at the launch of the Rideout Archive at the University of Bristol Theatre Collection on 30 April 2024. Rideout Creative Arts for Rehabilitation is one of a set of pioneering British arts and criminal justice organisations established in the eighties and nineties that are still led…
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