DAY 1

08/07/2021

DAY 2

09/07/2021

That's because it's A PERFORMANCE ABOUT PRISON ABOLITION SO REAL THAT TO TELL YOU ANYTHING WOULD RUIN THE REALNESS.

Ever wondered what it’s like to be a prisoner, an inmate, a jailbird, a con, a lag, a lifer, a nirk?

Wanna get a taste from the safety and comfort of your own theatre seat?

Time Inside is like time inside, it’s what you make of it …

The aim is not entertainment — it’s experience.

Alright alright … I’ll give ya a little taste of what happens in the show!

It show starts with these words:

Okay. So:

‘What do we do ... with all the serial killers ... you smart ass?’

The creator of what you’re about to experience is a prison abolitionist.

Which means they believe in the end of putting people in cages — forever, for ANY reason.

And the question,:

‘Okay, so. what do we do with all the serial killers ... you smart ass?’ ... is a common pushback.

Here’s the honest answer: ‘

‘No fucking idea, tough guy!’

Abolitionists don’t pretend to have all the answers, they just know that the current system does not work ... AT ALL.

The system may have you believe it’s there to save us from Hannibal the Cannibal, but, in reality, it mainly just further punishes human beings who’ve already had lives of abuse, trauma, poverty, lack of options, mental illness, and addiction, so end up doing what we call … ‘bad things’.

Abolitionists believe the constant threat of ‘criminals’ doing ‘bad things’ is by design, to prop up this world wide system of punishment, which they believe is just another system of control, no matter how humanely it’s done.

‘Bad people’ doing ‘bad things’ — as seen on the news — keeps us constantly scared, even as crime falls ... It keeps us believing the only way to deal with all this ‘evil’ is for our faceless government bureaucrats to take revenge IN OUR NAME.

But fear and vengeance does nothing to heal our hearts ... it only blackens our souls. Even worse when we hand the power over to those lawyers and judges and prison wardens who have no interest in healing.

Abolitionists believe that just like when we accepted slavery as normal, accepting a system where we dismiss other human beings as ‘criminals’ ... and throw them away ... corrupts ALL of us, everywhere, every single day, whether we think about the cages or not.

Abolitionists believe we can take back control, do better, make a more humane and just society.

We like cage free eggs, so why not cage free humans?!

The last thing the creator of this piece wants you to know is that, when they were a baby, their mother went to prison ... for 6 months.

To this day, decades later, their mother is still too traumatized to talk about what it was like ... to spend ...

… Time inside.

Thursday July 8, 18:00-19:00
Friday July 9, 18:00-19:00

Ticket price: kr1500

Please note:
To enter the theatre you will need to check in your mobile phone and other items such as tablets and laptops, all which will be safely secured.

RESOURCES TO GET YOU ALL INTERESTED AND MAYBE FIND AND JOIN A LOCAL ABOLITIONIST ORGANIZATION!

ARTICLES

- Prison Studies: 10.35 Million People are in Prison Around World.

https://www.prisonstudies.org/news/more-1035-million-people-are-prison-around-world-new-report-shows

- NBC News: Mariame Kaba wants us to imagine a future without prisons

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/mariame-kaba-wants-us-imagine-future-without-prisons-n1258586

- New Internationalist: Should Prisons be Abolished?

https://newint.org/features/2020/02/10/should-prisons-be-abolished

- The Guardian: Prison Abolition Impossible? It Once Felt Inevitable.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/19/15764176/prisons-abolition-alternatives

- Independent: Why Prison Should be Abolished.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/19/prison-abolition-america-impossible-inevitable

- Vox: The Case for Abolishing Prisons.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/19/15764176/prisons-abolition-alternatives

- The New York Times: If Prisons Don’t Work, What Will?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/opinion/mass-incarceration-sentencing-reform.html

- The Marshall Project: What Do Abolitionists Really Want?

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/06/13/what-do-abolitionists-really-want

- The Nation: What is Prison Abolition?

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/what-is-prison-abolition/

- The Good Men Project: Let’s Abolish Prison, Not Reform It.

https://goodmenproject.com/ethics-values/lets-abolish-prison-not-reform-it/

- The New York Times: Yes, We Literally Mean Abolish the Police.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html

- Rolling Stone: Six Ideas for a Cop-Free World.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/police-brutality-cop-free-world-protest-199465/

- ICPR: Prison: Evidence of it’s Use and Overuse Around World.

https://www.prisonstudies.org/sites/default/files/resources/downloads/global_imprisonment_web2c.pdf

BOOKS

- Mariame Kaba: We Do This ’til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56019003-we-do-this-til-we-free-us

- Michelle Alexander: The New Jim Crow

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6792458-the-new-jim-crow

- Danielle Sered: Until We Reckon

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42759711-until-we-reckon

- Monique W. Morris: Pushout

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25159334-pushout

- Maya Schenwar & Victoria Law: Prison by any Other Name

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/48734385-prison-by-any-other-name

- Angela Davis: Are Prisons Obsolete?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108428.Are_Prisons_Obsolete_?

- Howard Zehr: The Little Book of Restorative Justice

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/668125.Little_Book_of_Restorative_Justice

- Michel Foucault: Discipline & Punish — The Birth of the Prison

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80369.Discipline_and_Punish

- Victoria Law: Resistance Behind Bars

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6125091-resistance-behind-bars

- John Pfaff: Locked In — The True Causes of Mass Incarceration

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29502356-locked-in

- Alex S. Vitale: The End of Policing

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35403039-the-end-of-policing

- Rebecca Solnit: Hope in the Dark

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28048.Hope_in_the_Dark

- Johann Ari: Chasing the Scream

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22245552-chasing-the-scream

- Bessel van der Kolk: The Body Keeps the Score

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693771-the-body-keeps-the-score

SITES

- MPD150 / Resources

https://www.mpd150.com/resources/

- Transform Harm

https://transformharm.org/

- Survived and Punished

https://survivedandpunished.org/

- Incite

https://incite-national.org/

- The New Inquiry

https://thenewinquiry.com/

SINGLE PODCASTS

- NBC News: Thinking About How to Abolish Prisons with Mariame Kaba

https://why-is-this-happening-with-chris-hayes.simplecast.com/episodes/revisited-abolishing-prisons-with-mariame-kaba-3JZpVNPW

- The Appeal: Justice in America Episode 19 — What Justice Could Look Like

https://theappeal.org/justice-in-america-episode-19-what-justice-could-look-like/

- The New Yorker Radio: A World Without Prisons

https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/what-would-a-world-without-prisons-be-like

- On the Media: Understanding the Social Movement Cycle

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/understanding-social-movement-cycle-on-the-media

- Invisibilia: World With No Fear

https://www.npr.org/2015/01/16/377517810/world-with-no-fear

- You’re Wrong About: Stranger Danger

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3xO7IjAKz7o7F4r5aYCC66

- Fresh Air: Prisons Make Mental Illness Worse

https://freshairarchive.org/segments/psychiatrist-americas-extremely-punitive-prisons-make-mental-illness-worse

- Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History: Ep 61 (BLITZ) Painfotainment

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1LNj8AMxghgF8IWAy52yZ8

- For the Wild: Mariame Kaba on Moving Past Punishment /151

https://forthewild.world/listen/mariame-kaba-on-moving-past-punishment-151

SERIES PODCASTS

- On the Media Projects: Repairing Justice

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/projects/repairing-justice

- The On Being Project: Restorative Justice

https://onbeing.org/libraries/restorative-justice/

- Behind the Bastards: Behind the Police

https://open.spotify.com/show/0rOatMqaG3wB5BF4AdsrSX

- Headlong: Running From Cops

https://open.spotify.com/show/4fhkBveQz80Bb3X5A6FB0Q

- Scene on Radio: Seeing White

https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/

THEMED PODCASTS

- Soundcloud: Two Sides of Justice

https://soundcloud.com/2sidesofjustice

- Podcast Review: 8 Podcasts to Help You Imagine a World Without Police or Prisons

https://podcastreview.org/list/podcasts-on-police-and-prison/

- Feedspot: Top 15 Prison Podcasts You Must Follow

https://blog.feedspot.com/prison_podcasts/

EXTENSIVE LIST OF FILMS & DOCUMENTARIES ON RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

European Forum for Restorative Justice: Films & Documentaries

https://www.euforumrj.org/en/films-and-documentaries

VIDEOS

- Officer Tries to Explain Prison to Kids | The Citizen's Handbook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S1o7DPHGSE&t=1s

- We Do This 'Til We Free Us | Haymarket Books

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWL9a1f9uW0&t=2s

- We Are All Criminals | Emily Baxter | TEDxUNG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkpzNxVUfkM&t=596s

- Restorative Justice: Why Do We Need it? | BRAVE NEW FILMS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N3LihLvfa0&t=46s

- The Fallacy of Prison Reform | Angela Davis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfnbnTs0r-M&t=30s

- World Without Prisons | Tania Sawicki Mead | TEDxWellington

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hlkHov5grs&t=1s

- Bad Behavior Won't Stop With Punishment | Adam Foss | TEDxSuffolkUniversity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inv89j3VYVc

- Abolishing Prisons | Maya Schenwar | TEDxBaltimore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFTRn_sIGiQ&t=67s

- The Cop and the Ex-Criminal: The Power of Restorative Justice | Dan Donlin & Tyler Auck | TEDxUMary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUeexmVD_-E&t=45s

- End Mass Incarceration | Shannon Sliva | TEDxMileHigh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPA-p6UUDl4&t=43s

- Recovering from Crime – Restorative Justice in Action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUyzjeOrwnw&t=186s

- Reina Gossett + Dean Spade (Part 1-3): Prison Abolition / Abolition Everyday / Dangerous People?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDQlW1uJ8uQ&t=9s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1-2F3W9VSQ&t=20s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4WSHvZetkw&t=16s