Shakespearean Play Helps Inmates Relate To Characters, Crime

Performing a Shakespeare play in a prison is a challenge. Especially when all the actors are inmates, and the play includes sword fights, a drunken brawl, three brutal murders and a suicide. But the Muddy Flower Theatre Troupe at the Racine Correctional Institution pulled it off last week and got a standing ovation at all three performances. Gil Halsted prepared this report…