A theater group escapes the reality of incarceration through the creativity of staging a play, with a cast that includes actors who have been incarcerated.
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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:03 To die, to sleep, to dream.
00:08 [MUSIC]
00:11 >> This is a clemency hearing for your conviction 25 to life.
00:16 Since you've been in custody, you've been involved in the theater program.
00:21 >> Gentlemen, let's go.
00:22 [MUSIC]
00:24 >> It's been a program that was established to help people get more in touch with
00:28 their feelings and it truly gets some rehabilitation.
00:30 >> I am gladiator Goliath.
00:33 >> I am Star Trekker.
00:35 >> I'm Prince Hamlet of Denmark.
00:37 >> And it's turned into something, I don't know, wonderful.
00:42 >> What part do you play?
00:46 >> From time to time I do act, like we all do.
00:49 >> So are you acting at all during this interview?
00:52 [MUSIC]
00:58 >> We're here to become human again and
01:02 enjoy the things that is not in our reality.
01:07 >> I think you guys are becoming real with each other, vulnerable.
01:12 >> Listen, I already know what you're doing, know who you are, what you're about,
01:15 bro. >> What?
01:16 >> You don't get to tell me what I need in prison.
01:18 You don't get to do that.
01:19 And don't bring me in no dark corners no more.
01:21 [MUSIC]
01:24 >> The world expects brothers like you and I to walk in with our heads held down.
01:28 Nah, what you gotta walk in like a king.
01:30 >> Everything is yours.
01:32 >> I'm divine now.
01:33 >> Yeah.
01:34 >> This is my theater.
01:35 >> Now give him some love, give him some love.
01:37 [MUSIC]
01:39 >> Go to your most perfect spot.
01:43 [MUSIC]
01:45 Do you hear anything?
01:47 [MUSIC]
01:50 Are you with somebody?
01:51 [MUSIC]
01:55 Are you outside?
01:56 [MUSIC]
02:00 Hold that feeling.
02:01 [MUSIC]
02:06 >> Let's go!
02:07 [MUSIC]
02:11 >> You gotta admit that I murdered that Hamlet, bro.
02:16 >> Shakespeare is in his grave right now, he rolled over.
02:19 >> You did your thing, beloved.
02:21 [LAUGH]