Tag: rideout
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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…