What does it take to be a trailblazer in a criminal justice system that isn’t built for change? We sit down with Anna Herrmann and Jacqueline Stewart (Clean Break Theatre Company) and Andy Watson (Geese Theatre Company) to trace some of the histories of arts and criminal justice in Britain. We also hear from those who led this work in the seventies and eighties: Jenny Hicks and Jacqueline Holborough, Saul Hewish and Corinna Seeds. Theatremakers who imagined there was a place for performance in a hostile prison system and then went about making it happen.
Host Dr Sarah Bartley
Co-host Shona Babyemi
Producer Debbie Kilbride
Executive Producer Sukey Firth
Sound Engineer Max Aspen
Original music composed by Rex Horan
Visual design Russell Miller
Thanks go to staff at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, particularly Laura Wardle, Phil Rowe, Samuel Bailey, Bryce Lease, Amy Ryall, and Izzy Stuart.
Stages of Justice was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, with additional support from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
