Stories From Female Prisoners to be Showcased at Wesleyan University

Feb. 24, 2010 - PRLog -- A new play, Unexpected: Voices of Incarcerated Women, directed by Ron Jenkins, will be shown at the CFA Hall for two nights only. The February 25th and 26th performances will be shown at 8 p.m. and the cost is $5 for the general public and $4 for students.

In Unexpected, stories written by women formerly and presently incarcerated at the York Correctional Institute in Niantic, Conn., will be performed by the women themselves and by Wesleyan students who have collaborated with them. The February 25th performance will include a reading by novelist Wally Lamb from I’ll Fly Away: Further Testimonies of the Women of York Prison. Ticket income will be donated to the Barbara Fund, which supports education programs for incarcerated women.

“This play will give a stage to women whose voices have not been heard in the public debates about prison that have an impact on all our lives,” said Ron Jenkins, Director of Unexpected and Professor of Theater at Wesleyan University.

“With one percent of the U.S. population in jail it is important to listen in a way that humanizes rather than demonizes people behind bars. We might discover that they are not as different from ourselves as we expect them to be,” Jenkins said.

Box office site: http://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/boxoffice.html.