HMP Barlinnie
Since october 2004, Theatre NEMO has been providing workshops in HMP Barlinnie. With funding for one year secured from the SPS Choose Life fund and for three years from the John Paul Getty Trust, Theatre NEMO works in the prison for three 10-week blocks each year. A large percentage of prisoners in Barlinnie suffer from mental ill health problems. The approach we adopt helps to de-stigmatise mental ill health and allows self-expression. Our workshop facilitators work with the prisoners helping them to build their confidence and self-esteem. over 10 weeks, the groups work towards a production, be it a play or producing a video. In the most recent session, the group performed the Slipper Factory to an invited audience in HMP Barlinnie Chapel. Previous to this they performed an adaptation of Animal Farm in 2006.To see performance videos, please click on the links below:
2008 - Slipper Factory Short Film (in post-production) 2007 - Slipper Factory (coming soon) 2006 - Animal Farm - An Adaptation (coming soon) 2005 - An Anonymous Point of View (coming soon) 2004 - Bar None (coming soon) Theatre NEMO was featured in the Guardian newspaper on 14th December 2006 in an article about the first Scottish prison to be recorded, which was HMP Barlinnie. Please click play to listen to the Podcast:HMP Cornton Vale & Polmont
Previous works carried out at HMP Polmont and Cornton Vale will also be posted soon, please check back.