Out of all the venues for theater performances — some intimate some grand — the gymnasium of a women's correction center isn't usually what one's mind conjures up. But the Washington Corrections Center for Women is holding performances of an inmate play, Truth Flows Like Water: Transformations in Perdition. The play was written in tandem with Freehold's Engaged Theater Program, and on April 7 had its world premiere in front of 200 prisoners.
The Stranger was present at a performance the next day, this time for visitors. The paper describes the play as "goggling between the metaphorical town, stories from the prisoners' lives, fantasies about the future (one woman dreams of reuniting with her dad over dinner at the Space Needle), and snippets of social commentary, like a living newspaper."
