Program Description
Event Details
Staged presentation of the Off-Broadway hit, The Castle, an oral history drama about four recently released former prisoners who recount their stories of incarceration and reentry into society.
The play was conceived and directed by David Rothenberg, a veteran Broadway producer and founder of The Fortune Society, a nonprofit that supports the formerly incarcerated. Rothenberg co-wrote it with Angel Ramos, Vilma Ortiz Donovan, Kenneth Harrigan and Casimiro Torres, former prisoners who ended up at the Fortune Academy, a Fortune Society resident home nicknamed the Castle.
Ramos, Ortiz Donovan, Harrigan and Torres were also the original cast of The Castle when it was staged Off-Broadway at the New World Stages theater during an extended run in the spring and summer of 2008.
Teens and adults.
Registration required.
Inspired by the 1967 Off-Broadway prison drama, Fortune in Men's Eyes, The Fortune Society was founded by David Rothenberg. Among the services offered are supportive housing, career development, job retention, substance abuse treatment, alternatives to incarceration, HIV/AIDS services, education, family services and drop-in services as well as ongoing access to aftercare.
Presented in partnership with Stamford NAACP, Wellbuilt Company and The Bridge on Main, a project of Career Resources, Inc.