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Can it be funny in prison? The girls from the Warsaw Grochów detention centre say so!
The outcome of our comedy writing classes led by a well-known artist Aleksandra Petrus, a poet and teacher Ewa Frączak-Biłat and comic improvisation artists associated with the Comedy Club. We collaborated with the convicts and created podcasts that will make you laugh as well as show a fragment of their everyday life in prison.
We won’t write jokes like 'a woman comes to see a doctor’, but we will create an unusual comic message showing our life – life in prison – in a distorting mirror – says one of the women taking part in the project.
The classes, which we’ve been conducting since June in the Grochów prison, aimed at developing the participants’ linguistic and cultural competencies.
Comedy becomes self-therapy. It helps to survive difficult moments. You just have to learn how to use it.
The classes are run by fantastic „teachers” of stand-up and artists dealing with comic improvisation. The basis for workshops is a solid dose of knowledge about stylistic devices and the work of the classic authors who used comedy, including Tuwim, Fredro, Przybora and Czubaszek.
The results were published on the web in the autumn in the form of podcasts. You can listen to them and laugh along with us.
The project was carried out in cooperation with: Ewa Frączek-Biłat, Aleksandra Petrus, Kinga Kosik-Burzyńska, Łukasz Zajączkowski, Karol Kopec and Mateusz Fuczyło.
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Aleksandra Petrus
Photos: Małgorzata Brus
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Photos: Justyna Domasłowska Szulc
