Thousand Kites Play

Thousand Kites, Univ. North Carolina/Asheville 2007

This play’s true stories come from prisoners, corrections officers, and their respective families; and from people living in communities where prisons are sited.

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About The Thousand Kites Play

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The Thousand Kites play’s true stories come from people of all ages and backgrounds and speaks clearly to those already involved in criminal justice issues as well as those new to the conversation.You don’t need theater experience to read or perform the play. It can be read at a house party or in an auditorium. It can be performed by the members of your group, your families, friends, and neighbors, or by your local college theater class or community theater group. You can use it along with the Kites video and audio tools or by itself. It’s all good. It all works.

Thousand Kites Play Production, UNC/Asheville 2007

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Read about this 2007 production of Thousand Kites by University of North Carolina/Asheville students.

Thousand Kites Play Script

Script

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Perform this script in your community!

Mil Cometas (Espanol)

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Thousand Kites script translated into Spanish

Audio for Producing the Thousand Kites Play

Audio

1) 1000 Kites

2) Call My Name

3) Scoundrel's Ball

4) Buzzer

Thousand Kites Project

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Thousand Kites (in prison slang, to fly a kite is to send a message) began in 2006 as a collaboration between Appalshop components Holler to the Hood and Roadside Theater. Growing out of Holler to the Hood’s work of addressing the issue of the invisibility of the exceptionally large U.S.