Icon Theatre, Release

Date: Monday 11th June
From: 19:30
Category: Theatre
Description:

RELEASE explores the lives of three prisoners in their first few months after release, as they attempt to reconnect with the people and remnants of life they left behind.

At a time when two thirds of UK prisoners re-offend within two years, Release fuses high energy physical theatre, an original new score and mixed media to create an explosive insight into just how hard it is to go straight.

The production was devised during a two year process of research and interviews with ex-offenders, probation officers, criminologists and hostel managers, as well as site visits to hostels, prisons and probation offices.

It had development support from the South Hill Park Arts Centre, the Brook Theatre Chatham, the Toynbee Studios, an R&D award from Arts Council England South East and a work-in-progress showing at the Young Vic. It premiered to critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2011 at the Pleasance Dome.

Tickets £8 / £5

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