In this episode, the intimacy of self and group expression brings loving relationships of all kinds into being-–deep friendships, Jan and Finn’s romance, familial feelings, and ancestral bonds–with joys, like unexpected connections, and complications, including the challenge of racial difference.
This episode takes a closer look at the interplay of particular participants and group dynamics in the workshops. They get to know each other by making theatre together and empathize with people from radically different circumstances. Jan and Finn begin a slow courtship. The drama club becomes a safe space for Mama Glo.
What leads people to prison theater workshops? This episode begins six intertwined, first-person tales of these workshops, framed by a love story between Finn, who was incarcerated, and Jan, who cofacilitated.
