Fraden explores artist Rhodessa Jones' theater work with incarcerated women, known as the Medea project. Balancing narrative and commentary, Fraden chronicles t

This ain't no Dreamgirls," Rhodessa Jones warns participants in the Medea Project, the theater program for incarcerated women that she founded and directs. Her

This all-new collection examines the social, gendered, ethnic, and cultural problems of incarceration as explored in contemporary theatre.

The color line, once all too solid in southern public life, still exists in the study of southern history. As distinguished historian Nell Irvin Painter notes,

Applied Theatre was the first collection to assist practitioners and students in developing critical frameworks for their own community-based theatrical project