Gerusalemme: tra mediazione e metafora. Editoriale

The metaphor of Jerusalem as a besieged place, to release, but also as a heritage of treasures and diversity is the premise of the project Jerusalem Delivered in prison that six theatre directors took on in six correctional institutions of the Emilia Romagna region in the two-year period 2014/2015. The monographic part of the magazine gathers the materials realised during this project: analysis, chronicles, interviews, pic tures. The extra-monographic part hosts speeches coming from the debate that the Theatre in Prison Network encouraged within the Region, and a study case realised by Liegi University, that opens to an European perspective view. Central idea: the reflection on the resources and limits of thea tre work in prison, able to create artistic and educational pro jects of significant importance, but constantly “besieged” by contradictions and conflicts that need a firm work of weaving and mediation