Art and life in Roumieh prison
Inmates at Lebanon's most notorious jail blend artifice with reality in their theatrical production 'Twelve Angry Lebanese'
By Anna Sussman
Daily Star staff
Saturday, February 21, 2009
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When a group of prisoners, some of them in jail for life, debate the fictive sentencing of a young man to execution, is it art imitating life, or life imitating art? This and other challenging questions arose during the recent staging of "Twelve Angry Lebanese," in Lebanon's Roumieh prison. Does everyone deserve a second chance?
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