📦 The Box 🎭
Art Ending Torture
The scene is dramatic and grim.
Four men stand, sit, or lie down, each on a six-foot by nine-foot steel rectangle illuminated on the edges 🔲✨.
Propped on a stand at one end is a 12-inch by 6-inch rectangle… that’s where the food comes in 🍞.
This is “The Box”, an extraordinary stage play credited with helping end juvenile solitary confinement in California 🌟.
The play was written by Sarah Shourd, a former political prisoner who was incarcerated in Iran for over 400 days 🌍⛓️.
Released in 2010, she has since collaborated with inmates and activists to end solitary confinement in U.S. prisons 🚪🛑.
The cast and crew include formerly incarcerated individuals, and the powerful script draws its dialogue from the stories of survivors 🗣️📖. One of the characters, Ray De Vaul, had been in solitary confinement for over 17 years 😔.
Solitary confinement is torture, and while this play often brings its audience to tears 😢, it also inspires many to get involved in restorative justice and collective healing ❤️🩹.
You can get involved too, at EndOfIsolationTour.org 🌐, where you can donate to stop this torture in America 🙌.
“The Box” is art that imitates life, truly making a difference in the lives of others 🌍✨.
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