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Women bring Macbeth to life in Shakespeare prison program

“When I first go on stage I’m nervous, but as I go I feel exhilarated. I feel like I am the only one out there and that’s amazing.” Keta says she's making a lot of changes in her life. (We are using only the first names of the inmates in this article). She's serving a roughly 20 year sentence for a crime she commiteed nearly 10 years ago. She's one of the actors with Shakespeare in Prison , a program of the Detroit Public Theater. It's her first year participating in the program and tells me she's really enjoying it. "I thought I wasn’t going to understand some of the language that was going, but once we started getting into it was amazing. I feel like I’m right at home." The program takes place at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Washtenaw County. It's the only women's prison in the state. Frannie Shepherd-Bates, founder and director of Shakespeare in Prison hopes that the women will be empowered as a result of the work that they do in the program. "...the goal is not so

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