The University of Michigan's Prison Creative Arts Project recently came to Matrix Theatre to lead a Matrix "Talk-back" following the November 6, 2009 performance of "Happy Days" by Nobel Prize-winning playwright Samuel Beckett.
Matrix "Talk-backs" give audiences and artists a chance to share their experiences of a performance and discuss the ideas raised in the work. The event was hosted by Shaun Nethercott, Matrix's Executive Director and the play's director. PCAP Founder Buzz Alexander, along with mentor Lizzy Baskerville and former PCAP participants Mary Heinen and Brandon Gatson, all gave moving testimonies about their lives and their work, helping prisoners find their creativity and voices and preserving hope and self under imprisonment. Mary now leads PCAP's youth programs. The "Happy Days" creative team of Shaun and actors Stephanie Nichols and Dan Jaroslaw described how they located these themes in the play and in their performances.
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