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Prisoners in Concert set to rock Berbice

Oct 25, 2011 News

Prisoners in Concert is staged for Berbice, on October 29, 2011. A compact artistic package has been put together by the Guyana Prison Services.
The entertainment programme was launched on the October 2, 2011at the National Cultural Centre.
So far it has travelled to Bartica where it played to a sellout audience on October 15.
Inmates’ talents and artistic performances were at their best.
Theater Production Manager, Rosanna  Lackhan, said that the talent of inmates was not only an artistic entertainment, but was also marketable.
“I strongly believe that theater in prisons has brought excellent changes to inmates’ confinement and thinking. It has aided in collaborative efforts between prisoner and Prison officer. The talent in the art form showcases vital messages under the circumstances. That’s what was stunning when I looked at the two and a half hour production, which was coordinated by prison officers and hosted by Michael Henry.
“There were pieces by playwright Terry Abrams.”
Lackhan added, “From a production manager’s perspective and analyzing skilled theater training I have seen the prisoners in concert as an International Year for People of African Descent production.”
The show brings to the stage  the world of songs of the sixties, Indian musical renditions, poems, crime, domestic violence, incest,  alcoholic behaviour, African ancestral  dance sequences, and drumming, sexual harassment from the security forces, and HIV and safe sex.”
Lackhan, who has been involved as a production Manager for one of Guyana’s mega events, Carifesta 2008, and marketed two major productions for IYPAD-AND Caribbean Feedback, said that she is  confident that  prisoners can look for new horizons through the arts with the necessary guidelines in place.
“THEY do have a product.”

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