Prisontown

Prisontown

a world premiere

By Lee Osorio

May 10th - 19th, 2024

A Writer was driving down a dark country road outside of Atlanta several years ago when his phone lit up with a text from his brother, an immigration attorney. “How much of an activist are you?”

After receiving the message, the question continued to haunt the Writer and set him off on a literal and figurative path of discovery back to his once-thriving hometown of Lumpkin, Georgia, now dying and kept alive by the nation’s most notorious federal immigration detention centers. As he talks to those trapped in the prison system, the ghost makes a simple but incredibly hard request - SEE.

Running time: 90 minutes with no intermission.

Parental discretion is advised.

Prisontown has received developmental support through the Alliance Theatre's Reiser Atlanta Artists Lab, the Graham Martin Unexpected Play Festival (Theatrical Outfit and Working Title Playwrights), the University of British Columbia, Idea Capital, Art on the Beltline, and the Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival.