MISF Shorts: Saturday, October 10, 2020
6:00 – 7:15pm PT
More Than That: The Formerly Incarcerated People’s Performance Project
Tony Cyprien, “The Bus Ride & Then Some!”
Freddy Lee Johnson, “Success in Minor”
Pamela Ann Keane, “High and Low”
Pearl Louise, “The Call”
produced by Mark Kenward
co-directed by Mark Kenward, Rebecca Fisher, and Wayne Harris
California, USA
Hearing stories from those who have been incarcerated fosters compassion and understanding about the circumstances and choices that led them to incarceration, what they endured and learned inside, and the hard won success of their lives after incarceration. Their stories give hope for the human condition and our ability to reform and reinvent ourselves, as well as giving us the opportunity as a society to reconsider the inhumane conditions that prisoners often endure. Each of them brings to this project previous experience as a performer, writer, and/or public speaker, in addition to their inspiring work of now helping others deal with issues of reentry, substance abuse, housing and homelessness.
This project is made possible in part by CA$H | Theatre, a grants program of Theatre Bay Area, and is presented in association with The Marsh.
As recommended by the performers
These stories include frank portrayals of the causes and impacts of incarceration, including descriptions of physical violence, substance abuse, and racial trauma.