Producing Plays in Jail

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Producing Plays in Jail

From: Philip Graitcer
Length: 00:03:19

A youth detention center is about the last place you?d expect to see theater. Read the full description.

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Piece Description

A youth detention center is about the last place you'd expect to see theater. But an Atlanta theater company has been holding workshops to help some of the girls there learn about playwriting, acting, and themselves. Philip Graitcer visited the Metro Regional Youth Detention Center to learn more about the Atlanta's Synchronicity Theater Play Making for Girls program.

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PG: Make no doubt about it, Metro Regional Youth Detention Center seems like a prison. But inside, at the Playmaking for Girls workshop there is a breath of freedom. Susie Spear, the workshop director, welcomes the 10 girls who are here to learn the craft of playmaking. They?re about 12 to 16 years old and identically dressed in denim pants and blue shirts.

SUSIE_1(:11) We are with a group called Synchronicity Theater Group and the name of this program is called Playmaking for Girls and we believe in the female power.

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Playmaking for Girls began about 5 years ago when Synchonicity ? a women-oriented theater group ? was preparing a play about a girl gang member. Rachel May is Synchronicity?s artistic director.

MAY_2k (:13) We were interested in making sure that out actors didn?t just play gang girls but instead really had some exposure to kids who...
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A youth detention center is about the last place you?d expect to see theater. But an Atlanta theater company has been holding workshops to help some of the girls there learn about playwriting, acting, and themselves.

Philip Graitcer visited the Metro Regional Youth Detention Center to learn more about Atlanta's Synchronicity Theater Play Making for Girls program.