My AccountThese three pieces provide entryways into many different ways of thinking about abolition and theatre. Workshopping Intervention is a report where two writers attempt to share the voices of a dozen theatre artists as they grapple with what abolition means for theatre. Theatre as Healing for Formerly Incarcerated Women reflects on the present role of art in treating the wounds of the prison industrial complex; and Somatic Abolition considers what it means to bring abolition into our bodies and embodied practices.
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report
Workshopping Intervention: A Duet of Reports
In June 2021, a group of socially-engaged theatre artists came together to discuss what theatre can learn from abolition movements. Makram Ayache and Marilo Nuñez share their accounts of the conversation.
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interview
Theatre as Healing for Formerly Incarcerated Women
A conversation on the roles art can play as healing for women with lived experience of incarceration. With Amina Mohamed, Charlene Chapman, April Labine and Laverne Malcolm.
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Somatic Abolition in Theatre
Co-curator Mpoe Mogale and dancer Pam Tzeng reflect on what it means to bring abolition into the body – the embodied connection being a fundamental piece of abolition in addition to, of course, theatre.
