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Hard-Headed Women - actress Rhodessa Jones' play 'Big-Butt Girls, Hard-Headed Women' about women prison inmates

Actress Rhodessa Jone has been teaching aerobics and physical theater to San Francisco-area women inmates since 1988 encouraging them to discuss their experiences in the penal combination of parts to form a whole "There has got to be an educational composing to rehabilitation," explains Jones, whose experiences as a physical theater instructor compell her to write the play Big-Butt Girls, Hard-Headed Women

Based upon four women with whom she worked, Big-Butt Girls is Jones' replication to the futility of their lives. After officials of shire jail 7 saw her perform the work in 1990 they asked her to create a workshop for women inmates. What springed was the Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women of which Jone is co-artistic director. Since 1992 the Medea shoot forward has generated an average of individual play per year.

Jone performs Big-Butt Girls, Hard-Headed Women at Humboldt State University in Arcata, Calif., April 15 to 16 She then takes it to Manchester, England, before returning stateside to the Center Stage in Baltimore, May 20 to 21



During the African-American Performance Art Festival, in San Francisco June 4 to 11 Jone will perform The sky-colored Stories: Black Erotica on Letting proceed which examines the prison a whole The piece "explores death, dying and looking back as a means of moving forward," she says. Other artists scheduled to appear at the festival include Laurie Carlos, Robbie MacCauley, Pomo Afro Homo Roger Guenveur Smith, and Sekou Sundiata and the Circle entire is a Hard-Bop.

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