When: Wednesday, May 14 at 3:00pm – 7:00pm
Where: Lecture Hall 1 @ TESC
What: Schedule:
3:00 Shadow of Lucasville
4:00 Q&A call-in with death row prisoners
5:00 Behind the Badge
The Shadow of Lucasville film screening!
On tour with The Shadow of Lucasville, a new documentary film by D Jones about the 1993 prison uprising in Lucasville Ohio.
The Shadow of Lucasville revisits the 1993 uprising at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, one of the longest in U.S. history, while exploring the fight for human rights and media exposure through inmate uprisings in response to mass incarceration and dehumanization supported by the prison industrial complex. The film will be followed by conversation with death-sentenced survivors of the uprising, who will be calling in from Ohio’s super-max prison.
If you’d like to host one or both of these projects in your town, PLEASE contact Ben at insurgent.ben@gmail.com. We like to spend two nights in each city, when possible, but are also happy to present the film and the play, back to back in one evening.
The trailer for Shadow of Lucasville: https://www.youtube.com/
Behind The Badge: A Theatrical Examination of Police and Prisons in America (5pm-7pm)
What does it mean to be a compassionate, dedicated, humane police officer in the country with the world’s highest incarceration rate and a continuing tradition of racial injustice?
Insurgent Theatre brings audiences behind the badge of a neighborhood liaison officer, using stripped-down interactive theatre and a radical analysis to peer into the inner life of a man in blue.
Bio of Group:
Insurgent Theatre strives to connect performing arts with radical struggles, to make theatre that is relevant, engaging, challenging and useful for those who confront the US police state and global capitalist empire. We’ve been making original theatre since 2003 and frequently touring the country since August, 2008.
