The Examination (posted 05/03/18)
(opens in a new window)"So begins a more politically sly and artfully provocative piece than you might expect for a show developed as part of an academic research project."
Peter Crawley, Irish Times
UCD’s Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland in association with (opens in a new window)Brokentalkers Theatre Company presented (opens in a new window)The Examination in the Project Arts Centre and Axis, Ballymun, Dublin. The Examination is part of a Wellcome Trust funded project ‘Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850–2000’, led by Associate Professor Catherine Cox (UCD). As part of the project Brokentalkers worked closely with Catherine drawing on her historical research into healthcare and particularly mental health in Irish prisons. Brokentalkers also held theatre workshops and interviews with prisoners and former prisoners working with Mountjoy Prison and PACE Training and Education Services. The Examination ‘offers no easy escapes: both the health provisions of prisons and our own ideas of punishment and reform need careful and constant examination.’