Women and the Criminal Justice System : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama : 9781474262552 : 1474262554 : 06 Feb 2020 : Applied Theatre: Women and the Criminal Justice System offers unprecedented access to international theatre and performance practice in carceral contexts and the material and political conditions that shape this work. Each of the twelve essays and interviews by international practitioners and scholars reveal a panoply of practice: from cross-arts projects shaped by autobiographical narratives through to fantasy-informed cabaret; from radio plays to film; from popular participatory performance to work staged in commercial theatres. Extracts of performance texts, developed with Clean Break theatre company, are interwoven through the collection. Television and film images of women in prison are repeatedly painted from a limited palette of stereotypes ? 'bad girls', 'monsters', 'babes behind bars'. To attend to theatre with and about women with experience of the criminal justice s