The project is based on experiential learning; theatre students and prisoners will collaborate and research their joint experiences. Meeting with "others" generates narratives that then become dramatic texts for performance and dialogue with the community audience.

The course will emphasize particular processes in each semester:

The first semester will emphasize the inter-subjective process.

The participants will create dramatic materials from personal and inter-personal exercises. The course will emphasize various techniques and methods from Drama Therapy and Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed. 

The second semester will emphasize the intergroup process, the participants will be create dramatic narratives using improvisation and forum technique, writing scenes and taking responsibility for directing and producing a theatrical event.