Creative Acts’ Alumni Lab Play Reading of The Betterment

Creative Acts’ Alumni Laboratory presents

The Betterment

🎭✨ Get ready for an unforgettable evening as Creative Acts’ Alumni Laboratory presents their original new play at Indy Shakes! Mark your calendars for Tuesday, August 27th and a truly magical night. Doors open at 7 PM!✨🎭

The Alumni Lab, a group of 15 formerly incarcerated people, have devised a play that both challenges the narratives held about people with lived experience of the legal system, and reveals the ongoing impact of that experience. There have been plays about incarceration and its roots, but this is different in that it invites the audience to creatively experience the ongoing impact, isolation and harm done, even years later. What does it feel like to reenter a world that is fully computerized, speaks a different language and has no idea that you are a foreigner because you carry your trauma on the inside and seem “well adjusted”? How can we enable people to have a visceral experience in partnership with those most affected and consequently change narratives?