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DESCRIPTION:An award-winning play written by a prison inmate 25 years ago is Poetic 
 Justice Project’s newest production. Dan McMullan wrote BLYTHE, a 
 tenderhearted comedy set in a prison town, when he was incarcerated at 
 Chuckawalla Valley State Prison. The play placed first in a statewide 
 prison playwriting contest. It was scheduled for a staged reading in 1992 
 at the Ivar Theater in Hollywood, in a benefit sponsored by Ed Asner and 
 Edward James Olmos.\n\nBut two days before the show, the prison’s warden 
 pulled the plug on the performance, although the second- and third-place 
 plays were performed.  The Los Angeles Times published an article about the 
 controversy titled “Go Directly to Jail, Don’t Collect $200, Don’t 
 Write a Play.”\n \nNow Poetic Justice Project’s company of formerly 
 incarcerated actors will perform BLYTHE for one show only on Saturday, Nov. 
 5 at 2 p.m. on Alcatraz Island. The performance is the culminating event of 
 the National Park Service’s Diversity Week on the island. To reserve a 
 complimentary ferry ticket for this free performance, please visit Brown 
 Paper Tickets or call 1-800-838-3006.\n\nBLYTHE is directed by Leah Joki, 
 author of the memoir Juilliard to Jail and writer/performer of the 
 one-woman play PRISON BOXING. The playwright studied theatre and creative 
 writing with Ms. Joki in the Arts in Corrections program at Chuckawalla 
 Valley State Prison. \n\nDan McMullan paroled in 1991 and has worked with 
 disabled homeless people for 20 years as the director of the Disabled 
 People Outside Project. He is currently a Commissioner for the Human 
 Welfare and Community Action Commission for the City of Berkeley, as well 
 as a writer and editorial board member of Street Spirit newspaper. He lives 
 in Berkeley with his wife Katy and two sons.\n\nPoetic Justice Project 
 (PJP) is the only theatre company in the state comprised of formerly 
 incarcerated actors appearing in plays that examine crime, punishment and 
 redemption. Based in Santa Maria, the project was founded by Artistic 
 Director Deborah Tobola in 2009. A program of the William James 
 Association, PJP enjoys continuing support from the Fund for Santa Barbara. 
 For more information, visit poeticjusticeproject.org or find PJP on 
 Facebook.\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/10/20/18792492.php
SUMMARY:BLYTHE
LOCATION:Alcatraz Island
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/10/20/18792492.php
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