Prison is Where I Learned to Fly
by Rochelle Duffy
June 7 at 2:30pm
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Warning: Contains sensitive topics including mentions of suicide and physical and sexual abuse. Rated for Mature Audiences Only.
by Rochelle Duffy
June 7 at 2:30pm
Facebook Live
Warning: Contains sensitive topics including mentions of suicide and physical and sexual abuse. Rated for Mature Audiences Only.

A Note From the Playwright:
This play came out of my dissertation “Shelley’s Sibliography: Releasing the Incarcerated Voice through Memory, Imagination, and Dialogue.” At that time I had returned to grad school during my 50’s. This journey led me on a quest to find my own voice separate from my siblings. I was born into a tribe of 17 children. Thinking if I write their story, I would find a place for my own without leaving them out.
This play came out of my dissertation “Shelley’s Sibliography: Releasing the Incarcerated Voice through Memory, Imagination, and Dialogue.” At that time I had returned to grad school during my 50’s. This journey led me on a quest to find my own voice separate from my siblings. I was born into a tribe of 17 children. Thinking if I write their story, I would find a place for my own without leaving them out.
I was the only one to graduate from college. My quest complicated, as many journeys do, into a magnificent correspondence with my incarcerated brother who had dropped out of school into an addictive life many years ago. With the completion of my dissertation, I was asked to share my work with graduate students.
Gradually, each presentation chiselled away the theoretical portions leaving just the heart of my sibling voices. The classroom performances transformed into “Prison Is Where I Learned to Fly”.
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