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Life Wasn't Meant To Be Easy

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Title | Life Wasn’t Meant to Be Easy (theatre programme)

Creator | The Pentridge Mess Hall Players; written and directed by Frank McLaughlan

Date | Undated*

Format | Printed theatre programme (paper)

Notes | Programme for a play staged by prisoners at Pentridge Prison.


The text states that the production was a “completely new venture” for the Mess Hall Players, with each member participating in the conception and production. The programme lists cast and production roles and documents a collaborative, prisoner-led theatre project created and performed within the prison.



*1978 (mentioned in "last of the knucklemen" theatre program)

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