10 Mar 2019

Ruth Carraway creates drama in jail - and toilets!

From Standing Room Only, 2:26 pm on 10 March 2019
Ruth Carraway

Ruth Carraway Photo: supplied

Trouble-D is a play about the challenges, obstacles and enticements a recently released prisoner faces in the outside world.

It will be performed at Otago Corrections Facility at Milburn - where writer Ruth Carraway runs the prison drama group - as a first for the Dunedin Fringe Festival.

Ruth has actually got two shows in the Fringe.  The other's called Lavvies, set in a women's public toilet.

Ruth tells Lynn Freeman she's worked with prisoners here and in the UK, and she's a firm believer in the power of theatre to help both inmates and audiences.

She started the prison drama group about five years ago, and proceeds from Trouble-D will go to the Dunedin Night Shelter.  The show and Lavvies are both part of  the Dunedin Fringe Festival programme