Guarded Girls provides a bleak, painfully real window into life within the prison system GlobeArts
The Toronto playwright Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman offers chilling glimpses into the lives of several girls and women, all of them damaged in various ways by a dysfunctional penal system.Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman excels at writing about troubled young women. Her Governor-General’s Award-nominated play,– herupdate co-written with Joseph Jomo Pierre – she gave us a 23-year-old prostitute dealing in drugs and bleak cynicism.
Some of that damage is due to the brutal use of solitary confinement, making this a particularly timely play.The 90-minute play cunningly unfolds in three seemingly disparate sections. The first and longest one involves a couple of inmates, the self-styled bad girl Sid and the self-declared innocent Brit , who have been thrown together in the same cell.
Her scrappy nature also leads to repeated run-ins with that guard , resulting in repeated doses of what is known in prison parlance as “administrative segregation” or “seg.” After each period in isolation, Sid returns to Brit a little more broken, physically as well as psychologically – Endicott-Douglas does a vivid job of making Sid’s mental state visible in her slumped shoulders and pathetic attempts at cheerfulness.
The self-styled bad girl Sid and the self-declared innocent Brit have been thrown together in the same cell.In the poignant final section, a trio of young girls deliver monologues about their neglected lives. As their identities slowly come into focus, along with their connections to the previous narratives, Corbeil-Coleman reveals the way prison destroys daughters as well as mothers.
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