A review by rose_peterson
Caged by Boris Franklin, Chris Hedges, New Jersey Prison Theater Cooperative

4.0

Since reading August Wilson's Century Cycle and discovering Dominique Morisseau, I've been searching for more contemporary plays to bring into my classroom. Caged illuminates the generational effects of mass incarceration--and brings up questions for me about whether including eerily real depictions of life like this in my curriculum is healing or re-traumatizing.